Where Does Business Come From?

Posted by on Dec 19, 2008 in business, marketing, networking | 2 comments

Don’t worry, I don’t mean this in some historical or even psychological sense.  I’m not on about the origins of mercantile relationships or our need to form them.  What I mean is – Where does most of your business come from?  What is the primary source? This was a question asked by a networking organisation called BNI in a recent member survey.  Here’s what they...

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A Positively Brilliant Workshop

Posted by on Dec 17, 2008 in news and events, personal development, positive psychology | 0 comments

On Saturday 6th December I delivered a 1-day workshop at Queen’s University called The Psychology of Happiness: How to Grow Your Happy Skills.  Its purpose was to introduce the students to the new positive psychology movement, and to the thoughts of Martin Seligman and Mihály Csíkszentmihályi in particular.  Those who read the blog will know that I’ve reviewed Seligman’s...

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A Thin Slice of Malcolm Gladwell

Posted by on Dec 15, 2008 in personal development | 0 comments

Malcolm Gladwell is very much an author of the moment.  I’ve read his Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking.  It’s an engaging defence of intuition as an equally valid, and in some ways superior, method of decision-making to traditional reasoning, at least for the trained mind.  The main idea is Thin Slicing (seeing patterns in situations and behaviour based on very narrow...

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Spam

Posted by on Dec 12, 2008 in technology | 0 comments

Small Business Trends has reported that worldwide spam was reduced by 66% due to one Californian company McColo being shut down, after it was discovered to be a major source of this scurrilous interruption to our daily Send/Receive experience.  Could it be that one company was responsible for such volume? I reckon I get about 75 or more scam emails in each day.  Approximately 98 percent go...

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