Dec 07 2008
rev. 20 November 2008; get the PDF.
In the inchoate years of the 21st century, the nominal ideas behind Frederick Herzberg’s “Two-Factor Theory” have been largely cast aside in their want of experimental validation, but the late psychologist’s ultimate conclusion—that “job…
Nov 08 2008
See this in PDF format; revised 21 October 2008.
The relatively inglorious origins of organizational behavior as a field of study began as little more than queries into potential ways to improve productivity and reduce human variability—this at the advent of…
Oct 27 2008
You’ll pardon my bluntness in the title, but I find it concise and to the point.
My entry “Sam Vaknin’s Self-Love” remains one of my most popular entries, and continues to attract a dialog/argument between refugees from various fora and user…
Feb 27 2008
There’s nothing inherently new or exciting in the word cacophonous; in fact, many of you have probably heard it before. It has a flair of the exotic, but it’s showed up often enough in the…
Feb 08 2008
Condensed Knowledge ed. Will Pearson & al.My brother’s been reading mental_floss and its associated books for several years. Condensed Knowledge is, to the extent of my knowledge, the first of their…
Apr 18 2007
This is a really interesting phrase. We’ve many of us used it before; I’d always wondered, but never investigated, why this particular phrase happens to be used in a context of someone who is…