Last night, I tried to learn "the easy way" [sic] how to supervise and motivate people.
I started listening to a set of cassette tapes that were once circulated by the Library.
They had been removed from the catalog and put on a back shelf. The speaker is "someone famous," I guess, in the field of business management. I didn't bother to remember his name. Half way through the first side of the first tape, I could stand no more. In his own smug style, he was preaching the same gospel of pitiful witticisms, illustrative (and probably unverifiable) factoids, and vague rubrics that I had heard passed off as profundity at numerous staff meetings when I worked for an insurance company and an investment firm 3 decades ago.
This "RSA Animate" video was different - surprisingly if not fantastically so. I can hardly spell "debenture," let alone explain them, but I can spot business acumen deeper than the bottom line - the kind of intelligence that doesn't start and stop at "What can I take them for today?"
There may yet be hope for a dominate business ethics that doesn't, ultimately, define
"success" as would Ayn Rand. (Long may she reign in Dilbert's Hell.)
Thanks, Jim.
Hugh
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Great stuff. Motivates me to get back into the classroom to test this on geology students. Actually, without realizing I was doing it, this is what lead to productivity for students taken to Bering Glacier. Here is the glacier - now do something creative and productive.
Lots of examples throughout history. The composers, the artists, the scientists, the philosophers, the Nobel Prize winners.
When you think about it, it becomes obvious.
Thanks, Jimmy, great stuff.
Jay
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
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