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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Limitless Movie Review

Posted by on Mar 28, 2011 in business, emotional intelligence, learning, personal development | 1 comment

So I saw Bradley ‘Faceman’ Cooper’s new movie Limitless on Saturday night.  It’s about a washed-up writer dude who gets a cutting-edge pill that multiplies his IQ into a four digit figure… with dark consequences.  “I wonder what you made of it?”, I hear you think.  Well, wonder no more. First, the movie.  Bradley Cooper was funny in The Hangover, or...

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More Evidence For Brain Lateralisation, WOOOP!

Posted by on Nov 17, 2010 in emotional intelligence, training | 3 comments

OK, so not the most sexy blog title in the world.  In fact, it was so dire, I added in the sound slang simply to try and curry favour with you, and to express my nerdish pleasure at the topic. I’ve always believed that the fact our brains are split in two tells us something profound about our world.  There’s the rhythmic right and the logical left.    This is a standard...

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Nietzsche Was Right!

Posted by on Oct 20, 2010 in coaching, emotional intelligence, positive psychology | 1 comment

Maybe you’ve heard the saying: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.  At first flush it seems like nonsense, while sounding sort of cool.  If someone almost stabs you to death, surely that makes you weaker? The phrase is from the German philosopher Fredrich Nietzsche.  Now psychologists have discovered he was right, if you make it a matter of resilience. Resilience is the...

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