The Latest in Erotic Capitalism

Posted by on Sep 5, 2011 in emotional intelligence, gender at work | 0 comments

Forget about emotional capital, or even its left-wing neighbour, social capital.  Make way for the latest trend – erotic capital!  Less ooh-er matron, more ooh-er manager… While out and about in the car last Thursday I was listening to Radio 4 – between REM songs – and I overheard an interview with Catherine Hakim, a researcher in sociology at LSE.  Listen to the chat...

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Some Interesting Stories #1

Posted by on Sep 27, 2010 in entrepreneurship, gender, news and events, personal development, series | 4 comments

Every now and then ‘the news’ produces an interesting story that flies dangerously close to the ground.  It therefore fails to register on our radars, which are primed to catch those important-sounding-but-personally-irrelevant ones instead. I thought it might prove useful if I gathered some of these together at semi-random intervals for your perusal.  Their general theme is...

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Men Are So Last Season

Posted by on Aug 2, 2010 in gender, gender at work | 3 comments

There have been a few quality articles written recently about a topic close to my heart – the place of men in the modern workplace.  In this blog, I intend to do two things.  Firstly, I want to provide you with links to them so you can read them at your leisure, and a summary of what they’re about.  And second, since they mention some issues that I’ve touched on before,...

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The Body Language of Honesty

Posted by on Jun 7, 2010 in body language, communication, ethics, gender | 0 comments

I was tempted to call this blog, “All men Are Liars!” because that’s the finding of a recent poll.  Or, at least, men are bigger liars when compared to women.  One of the reasons for this is that men are less easily made feel guilty than women.  Men can justify their lies better.  How?  We’re not told.  Probably due to a lesser empathy quotient. Readers of this blog...

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