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Language, Thought and Reality
One of the most revolutionary discoveries/learnings of my life (a couple of years ago) is the fact that (to a certain extent) there is noonesingle objective reality.Actually, I had never thought about...
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Amazon Kindle: What Would Gutenberg Say?
As I had written in a previous post, Google just released a new product in its labs: Google Fast Flip. The aim of the product is to change the way in which we read news on the web. Someone else,...
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Obama, the Nobel Prize and the Power of Symbols
Friday Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel peace prize for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy". The general reaction was one of astonishment. Let's admit it, nobody was...
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Did You Know That...
More or less:there are 31,000 McDonald's in the world,20 hours of video are posted on YouTube every minute,5 babies are born every second,2 persons die every second,Micheal Jackson's Thriller sold 110...
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Leadership: Towards a Paradigm Shift
According to M. Popper (2004), "The first modern attempt to formulate a theory of leadership appears to be that of the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle (1841)". Carlyle, describes the leaders as the...
View ArticleA Brilliant Lesson on Creating Value
Advertising guru Rory Sutherland gives a brilliant and hilarious talk on creating value by changing our perception of the product, rather than the product itself. Please don't stop the video unless you...
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Alternative Solutions to Stop Global Warming?
Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner, authors of Freakonomics and now of Superfreakonomics(published a couple of days ago), are always able to spread strong controversy with their writings. In...
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Understanding Sensemaking, part 1
In these days I am reading a book called Sensemaking in Organizations, written by Karl E. Weick, professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology at the University of Michigan. I am supposed to read...
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Corporate Lingo
Managerial Pseudo-Jargon: a form of language widely used in corporate settings which is neither a jargon in the sense of the specialised language of a group of experts nor a jargon in the sense of...
View ArticleWhy are We Happy?
Moreese Bickham spent 37 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He later got exonerated through DNA evidence. He commented: "I don't have one minute's regret. It was a glorious experience."...
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Understanding Sensemaking, part 2
In this previous post, we discussed the idea of sensemaking and how this concept is different (in some aspects) from the concept of interpretation. Now, in order to really grasp the meaning of...
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Applying Sensemaking: the Amadou Diallo Tragedy
Yes, I know, I know: I had written that I was going to write only two posts on sensemaking. But the other day I was thinking: "Ok, I have written two very theoretical posts on sensemaking. Wouldn't it...
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If the World Were Perfect...
"We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives."La Rochefoucauld"In science, as in love, too much concentration on technique is likely to lead to...
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Marriage: a Romantic view...
Betsey Stevenson, economist at Wharton, shares her view on love (clickherefor the full article):[...]Economists simply can't believe in one soulmate. There are too many people in the world and the odds...
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Stumbleupon.com: the Definitive Solution Against Boredom?
I am sure this has already happened to you: you are sitting in front of your pc and want to surf the web, but you have no idea on where to go... Inspiration is lacking... You start getting bored... You...
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From Experience to Transformation
Today we have the great honor of having the first guest post here at Lonelydonkey! The author is my (almost homonym) friend Simone Moriconi. Enjoy!For a firm, to create an experience means to make the...
View ArticleLeadership and Orchestra Conductors
Some time ago I had written a post on the paradigm shift we are assisting to in the world of leadership. It just happened to me to find this fascinating talk, performed by orchestra conductor Itay...
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Don't Eat that Marshmallow!
In Psychology related fields, some great experiments - yeah, I mean those strange tests performed by people wearing white lab coats - were carried out. Among the more interesting we can list Zimbardo's...
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Identity, Discourse & Organizations
Common sense – derived from a strictly modernist understanding of the world - describes the individual as a fixed entity with a certain given and stable personality. In fact, identity has been...
View ArticleIdentity, Discourse and Organizations: Managism
In the last post I had promised to write a piece to make what I had written there a bit more concrete. Here I am! I want to discuss the implications of a certain type of discourse on managers’...
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