Category: Systemic Stories About Our Human Reality
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National Article 16: So, who is the (real) criminal?
Stressed so I took my boss hostage (thesun.co.uk) I found this part interesting: Thompson then tied his victim to a chair and subjected him to a 20-minute ordeal that left Mr Grady suffering depression and post-traumatic stress. He remains off work five months later. The court heard the worker (Thomson) told his boss: “This is the…
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National Article 15: Is one choosing to work because one needs to eat?
Or does one choose to work because one wants to carve a career (to advance the public or private good) for oneself and for others?
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National Article 14: What is the right answer?
Focussing on how one teaches or how one learns? Can one exclude the other? Which would lead the other within the school system? When a student shows he has understood (by his grades) what the teacher has taught him, would that mean he is learning? Would that mean should the teacher stop teaching (such as…
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National Article 12: Maybe the name ‘football’ is misleading
Because one foot really cannot make a difference to the game till the team is willing to work as a team but more importantly works to defend for its nation. Yet we all relish that one foot that kicks “the dream goal” to reality! It is what glues us all to the set and the…
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National Article 11: A Case of Productivity! Really?
It is classic! Perhaps we are working longer number of hours but we are also not the most productive. How is that possible? Data extracted on 25 Feb 2012 16:34 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat Data from 1979: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/34/42/35205504.pdf Frequency Annual Time 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Country Australia 1 780 1 739…
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National Article 10: Do we have “systems” to measure performance because we have lost beliefs in ourselves and others and we cannot talk about the loss?
Without a belief in oneself and others can we really expect to see performance by oneself, the organization and the country (what about the region, the world) improve over time? Should, let us say for the sake of argument, that we do not believe in ourselves and others, is there a price that we would…
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National Article 8: Do we demand pay increments based on what we need to spend on or ….
… what we did to give in generating the revenue or increasing it and more importantly sustaining the increase (so we know we got it right!) so that it would allow the country (or organizations) to pay us increments? What contributes to the revenue rising? More sales (not increased prices – that is not real) and…
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National Article 7: Is Job Descriptions a cover-up for hiding otherwise our fears or our aspirations at the workplace?
And bound by a belief that our views of the world and our aspirations cannot be ‘brought out into the world for others to see’? Job descriptions, yes they describe the job we do or that someone should do. But it is that ubiquitous clause at the end that always says, ‘To carry and obey all lawful orders…
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National Article 6: When things go wrong, should we “go after” the supply or the demand?
Remember, without demand there will be no supply. At the marketplace it is the demand (overt or otherwise) that drives supply! Take anything: Peddling of fake sex drugs Peddling of counterfeit cigarettes Peddling by prostitutes Addiction to gambling Addiction to alcohol consumption Addiction to smoking Rise of HIV/AIDs epidemic Rise of inflation Price wars Availability…
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National Article 5: Is life one big party … and then four days of study? When do we learn? Or did the dead cat just killed our curiosity?
“What would it take to see the levels of education in the country rise without having the need to set standards (and the government having to invest in) for it?” Hmm …. have we thought of this question? As a country? To appreciate the question, first we will need to find out what is causing…
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National Article 3: Lands of ‘Princesses’ and ‘Prostitutes’!
Are the two worlds really that different or there is merely a thin line separating the two? Are these two worlds defined by the women or by the men or by both or by persons beyond the couple? I had a surreal experience yesterday. I was on my way to an engagement party and I…
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