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Monthly Archives: January 2009
The history of work (II): Eleven rules for hiring women (1943)
During World War 2, owing to the large number of men away on active duty, companies had to take on a huge number of women. The leader article of the magazine “Mass Transportation” in 1943 gives eleven recommendations on how to do this. All the rules are worth their weight in gold, although my personal favourite is number 8. Here they are: Continue reading
Why speak about fear
People sometimes ask me why I decided to write a book about fear. It all goes back to 1998 when I was writing my doctoral thesis about knowledge management (which ended up being about talent management). What really intrigued me at the time was to get to the bottom of why people don’t share everything they know. Back then the buzz words were databases, technology, quality and, yes, people management. Continue reading
Money + sex = happiness?
We all know that love and sex sell. You’ve only got to take a look at the rankings of the most visited web sites in the world: sexual contacts, products with the most outlandish claims and pornography. In Spain, for example, it’s estimated that a million people buy sex-related products every day. If sex is one of the oldest businesses in the world, it’s probably because it’s coded into some part of our genes. According to biologists, even the smallest amoeba in the world has two basic needs: survival and reproduction. Continue reading
