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For Friedrich Nietzsche, the basic human motivation was a will to power. For others, from Freud and Skinner to Tony Robbins, it is a will to pleasure that drives us. Another man, Victor Frankl, had a different theory, one that was tested in the cold fires of the Nazi concentration camps. Frankl was a psychotherapist before his incarceration there, and was in the unique position of beign able...
Read MoreBooks are Power!
As a lover of books, I often think I’m a member of a dying breed. Everything’s computers, computers, computers. But now it seems I’m not alone. There is one other who looks to books for inspiration, and he happens to be the most powerful man in the world. So that’s all right then. BBC reporter Razia Iqbal has written an excellent article called The power of...
Read MoreCutting the Crap of Recession-Speak (Part 1)
I’ve just read the best article yet only article worth reading on the current recession. I’m no macro-economist, so I’ve found it hard to follow some of the more technical melodramatic discussions so beloved by the media. How did this global economic tsunami downturn come about? An over-inflated property market? A housing crisis? Banks too eager to lend? Stock market...
Read MoreTrain the Trainer Workshop
You’ve landed a new job or got landed with a new task. It involves training people. You don’t know where to begin. You don’t know if you can stand up in front of crowd of people. You don’t know how to structure the session. Maybe you’re someone who has been training for a while but was never properly instructed in the methods or coached on your skills. Or maybe you’re...
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