Category Archives: Mental Models

The Case For The Father: What The Evidence Actually Says About Paternal Involvement In Early Childhood

Father involvement is associated with measurable child outcomes at moderate effect sizes — but quality of involvement, not volume of contact, carries the association. What the research establishes, and what it cannot.

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Performance, Not Presence: Why Creativity Remains the Mind’s Central Asset

Machines may exceed human intelligence, yet every output remains bounded by the domains of architecture, data, sensors and objectives. Until science can detect first-person experience beyond behavioural imitation, machine consciousness… Read more »

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The Power Of Narratives As Paradigm Shifts Amidst The Turbulent Forces That Oppose Change

The Power Of Narratives As Paradigm Shifts Amidst The Turbulent Forces That Oppose Change

I recently read a riveting article in the Harvard Business Review entitled “Storytelling that drives bold change”- which conceptualised (with practical examples) the poignancy of taking a narrative driven approach… Read more »

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The Concurrent Innovation Paradigm Manifests Through Virtual Enterprise Networks – A Model For Reviving of Economic Systems

We are amidst trepidatious times with the cataclysmic signals that are pointing to a prolonged recession coupled with inflationary and deflationary divergence and the imminent national sovereign debt crisis. The… Read more »

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The Rise Of Front Line Intelligence & Reverse Mentoring – HR 3.0 to HR 4.0 — thealphaswarmer

The Rise Of Front Line Intelligence & Reverse Mentoring – HR 3.0 to HR 4.0

I previously wrote about the fact that notion that “Entrepreneurial activity takes many shapes and forms whilst having their own distinctiveness in approach and execution” here which is a universal truth! Everyone needs to escape the rat race and… Read more »

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The 5 Elements: A Holistic Framework To Assessing Whether To Start A Business Or Strategically Innovate From An Existing Entity Instead

We have all heard stories about setting up office space at the old shed (that also housed your grandparents CD recorder) or in a shamble stock garage at the back… Read more »

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Balancing Tension: The Dynamic Coordinator Role Within Innovation Systems

One of my favourite books of all time has to be Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Timbles 10 Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution. Within the nomenclature, the authors… Read more »

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