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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 illusiveness of fairness
Fairness is a concept which is used often to justify a point of view when discussing the distribution of goods or benefits – “it should be done fairly”. But what does this mean, what is fair and what is not fair? Most people seem to have a very strong sense whether something is fair [...]
Red Dwarf and the Meaning of Life
I have been watching episodes of the science fiction series Red Dwarf over the past few weeks. Most episodes are delightfully silly, filled with absurd plots and cheap laughs. The second episode of the fifth season is very different, as it deals with the ultimate question: the meaning if life. Kryten tells the tale of [...]
The Wonder of Religion
Dutch Magician Tommy Wonder provides an interesting insight in Volume I of The Books of Wonder (1996). He gives advice to magicians on what to do when a spectator discovers – or beliefs to discover – the secret to a magic routine:
I’ve frequently wondered why people sometimes come up with painfully silly solutions and don’t [...]
Living without free will
A thought experiment was put to me recently:
Assume you have been charged with a crime. In court you are able to conclusively prove that free will does not exist and therefore you can not be held responsible for this act.
I was asked to reflect on this philosophically. Although this seems more to be a legal [...]
The Spirit of Uluru
Uluru, or Ayers Rock as it is known to westerners, is a place of deep spiritual and cultural significance to the local aboriginal people, the Anangu. The many visitors to the National Park who come to see Uluru does, however, cause great tensions, as the values of the Anangu are not always recognised by the [...]
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