Monthly Archives: March 2009

The history of work (III): an employee with talent in 1951

Following on from “A contract for a schoolmistress in 1923″ and “Eleven rules for hiring women (1943)”, I’d like to share with you another pearl of wisdom from the past, this time from the book Practical Business Psychology by Laird and Laird, published by the prestigious McGraw-Hill Book Company in 1951. In this book the authors list the qualities which we should have if we want to be considered an employee with talent. (My favourite one comes at the end.) Continue reading

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How do we choose our leaders? An evolutionary approach.

How do we choose our leaders? The Spanish broadcaster Eduardo Punset tackled this question with the evolutionary social psychologist Mark van Vugt of the University of Kent in his programme Redes (“Networks”). Continue reading

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