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Business Research Paradigms As a lecturer in a UK university business school I sometimes find myself…
Einstein doesn’t work here anymore – creative thinking in Higher Education

(with apologies to Maurice B. Cook) Universities all over the world are under pressure to be…
Jordan Peterson’s IQ

I came across some things that Jordan Peterson has been saying about IQ and I have…
Is there Progress?

Sometimes people ask if there really is such a thing as progress and sometimes they deny…
A Problem with the Economy

Imagine a small island with ten people living on it. One of the island inhabitants, Bill,…
Unease with Neoliberalism

I often come across academic publications that contain the word “neoliberal”. It makes me uneasy because…
Foucault and Power

Foucault’s theory of power is radically different to previous theories. Instead of seeing power as working…
UK Politics Post Brexit

The politics of the UK, like the politics of everywhere else has fallen into a new…
Three Quadrant Models of Organisational Culture

Just been looking at Whittington’s (“What is Strategy and does it Matter?”) four Generic Strategies and…
Consciousness and Desire in Deleuze and Bakhtin

I have been reading Deleuze’s and Guattari’s “A Thousand Plateaus” at the same time as reading Bakhtin. These…