SubscribeResponse to one of Alvo Stockman’s ideas on the psychology of magic.
The Horizon of Reason
Exploring the boundaries of logic and perception
Category: Philosophy
God exists!
Kurt Gödel’s mathematical proof of God
The Praise of Folly
Some deliberations about the place of carnival in contemporary society.
Zombie Strippers
“Great tits huh? Yes, but what does it mean?”
Last year I watched Zombie Strippers with a few friends and was amused by its extravagant combination of nudity, gore and philosophy. Some might consider this a pretentious B-movie, but that assumes that the philosophical content of this flick are mere sound bites and not a coherent [...]
Environmental Responsibility for Managers
Ethical analysis of the environmental responsibility of managers.
The rat race
After several months of essay writing I finally have some time to reflect. I do enjoy studying the MBA, but sometimes it does makes me wonder why I do this. When I studied philosophy I decided to put my career on hold. Now that I am finishing this MBA I feel like I need to [...]
Sometimes mystery is more important than knowledge
I have recently been introduced to ted.com, a great website that features “riveting talks by remarkable people”. One of the talks that I found very interesting is by J.J. Abrams, one of the creators of the TV series Lost. One of the most thought provoking things he says is:
Sometimes mystery is more important than knowledge.
A [...]
Is Management a science?
On the train from Hanoi to Sapa I shared a cabin with two English women. One was completing her PhD studies in corporate social responsibility and lamented the amount of work it takes to promote.
One professor of the Graduate School of Management of La Trobe university once tried to convice some students to continue with [...]
A night out with the Vietnamese students
The expedition is now in full swing and we have spoken to several organisations and met some very interesting people in different organisations around Hanoi.
Yesterday we visited our fellow MBA students at Hanoi University who were attending a lecture about Frederick Taylor.
Taylor is the founder of management as a science. I sometimes lovingly refer to [...]
The customer is always right
One of the adages often proclaimed in marketing is: “the customer is always right”. An often heard objection against this is that bowing to every whim of customers would make it very hard to achieve organisational goals, i.e. to make a decent profit.
To find out what this actually means, this statement needs to be unpacked [...]
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