On Animals and Pets in the Workplace

On Animals and Pets in the Workplace

Why animals and pets are welcome in the workplace (and we didn’t even know it) We have just “discovered” this amazing book written in 1993. Its author, John O. Whitney, spent most of his career as an executive and CEO of several companies and then became a professor...

London’s CITY A.M. review

When you liberate your employees, productivity and profit will follow by Alexander Deane 28 JANUARY  2010 WE LIVE in a society in which we’re always watched – not just by the state, but in the workplace, too. Keen to cut costs and direct workforce activities with...

The Globe and Mail review

Freedom: the avenue to engagement by Harvey Schachter JANUARY 27, 2010 We celebrate freedom. We consider it a hallmark of our political and economic systems. Business leaders are quick with paeans to the freedom of the capitalist system, and the perils of shackling...

Neuroscience shows threats bad and freedom good

Managing with the Brain in Mind David Rock AUTUMN 2009, ISSUE 56 …Although a job is often regarded as a purely economic transaction, in which people exchange their labor for financial compensation, the brain experiences the workplace first and foremost as a...

On the focus on money

Mitch Albom “People are only mean when they’re threatened and that’s what our culture does… And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.” – Morrie Schwartz, in Tuesdays with...