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“In the midst of such overwhelming existential change, the pace of our daily lives will continue to increase as our world continues to shrink. Fear and anxiety are natural reactions, yet no one in the political realm acknowledges this”. (Kathleen Parker, Washington Post, March 2016). Speaking as an older person I can second her concern. …
Earlier in the year the New York Times carried an article on a management tool I was unaware of – the 360-review. In my time as a manager we had annual staff performance reviews, strictly confidential and conducted between the manager and each of his/her staff. The latest wrinkle on this is to encourage everyone …
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Exxon Mobil is the world leader in climate change denial, arguing that too much remains unknown about the threat of climate change and how to address it. It has spent millions on peddling claims about global warming that have been debunked by all but a tiny number of scientists, infuriating everyone else concerned. Shareholders of …
Polly Toynbee has an excellent article in The Guardian on June 14th. She points out that, however well the dangers of Brexit are explained, people simply are not listening. Immigration and Turkey are what is on their frontal lobes. The reality is that An actual Brexit will mean little change, except a big drop in …
A letter from Portugal “The criterion behind this choice of paintings by Manuel Amadon, now shown at Casa das Historias , that is to say, the various possibilities of creating groups and relations within this universe of images, is freely devised in a curatorial approach that is unrestrained by any kind of systematic vision or …
