Don't treat businesses like people (3)
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By Philip BrewerWhen you fall short of meeting your obligations, it's natural to feel bad. In fact, it's natural to want to not only meet the letter of your obligation, but also the spirit: to do what it takes to make the other person feel fairly treated. These feelings are very human, and they work well when you're interacting with humans acting as individuals. When you're dealing with businesses, though, they work against you--and businesses ...
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Corporations would rather not do expensive things like paying competitive salaries, giving regular raises, and offering a pension to reward long-term service. That costs money, and corporations would rather not spend money. So, they usually start by trying to use a sense of personal obligation to get people to do whatever will help the business. That's why they ask people to "commit" to the company--they do it because they know people will feel obliged to stand by their word, and because guilt is much cheaper than paying a project completion bonus.This is true for relationships besides just that of employee--customers, borrowers, clients, and venders are all subjected to similar efforts, where the corporation tries to structure things so that people feel (and behave) as if they were in a personal relationship with the business. They do this because it works. It works because people have trouble distinguishing between their legal obligations and their moral obligations, they allow their feelings to push them into making poorer choices.Because this is all a deliberate effort by corporations to control you, it's sometimes not quite clear what kind of relationship you're in. After all, even though your counterpart is a corporation, your interface with it--boss, loan officer, salesperson--is a person. The whole thing is structured to make you feel uncomfortable if you leave him or her in the lurch. Don't be fooled.
The Democrat Moral Hypocrisy (1)
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Gateway Pundit has the following quote from the President-Elect that betrays a tremendous hypocrisy on the left when it comes to preaching morality. US President-elect Barack Obama has promised to rebuild his country’s “moral stature in the world”. It’s interesting that the Democrat party, which places so much emphasis on the importance and necessity of rejecting “moral authority” when it comes to things like abortion, stem cell research, and certain kinds of marriage, would so ...
Jonestown (The Situation of Evil) Revisited (1)
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With the 30th Anniversary of the Jonestown Mass Suicide upon us, now is a good time to republish the three-part Situationist series from 2007 on the “Situational Sources of Evil” — published also in the January/February 2007 edition of the Yale Alumni Magazine and based my book, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil (Random House, March 2007). * * * Imagine that you have responded to an advertisement in the New Haven ...
Food For Thought Links (1)
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How to Organize Your Mental Clutter Excellent tips for sitting down and putting it all together. I like it because it isn’t wishy-washy and gives very specific instructions. America the Illiterate The gist: There are over 42 million American adults, 20 percent of whom hold high school diplomas, who cannot read, as well as the 50 million who read at a fourth- or fifth-grade level. Nearly a third of the nation’s population is illiterate or ...
如何与人和睦相处？ (2)
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译者：luyue １．惜言如金。说的永远比想的少。养成低声说话，说有份量的话的习惯。怎么说比说什么重要的多。 ２．慎做许诺。无论代价如何，诚心诚意信守诺言。 ３．永远不要错失机会向某人说，或说关于某人的饱含善意和鼓励的话。赞美做得好的工作，不管那是谁做的。如果需要批 评，就做有益的批评，绝不要怀有恶意。 ４．关心他人，关心他们的追求，他们的工作，他们的家和家人。和那些快乐的人、哭泣的人和哀伤的人一起作乐。让你遇 见的每个人，无论他多么卑微，都能感受到你对他的重视。 ５．要令人感到愉快。不要老是述说你微不足道的周身疼痛和失望沮丧，给你周围的人增加压力和苦恼。记住，每个人都担 负了某种负担。 ６．虚心接受他人意见。可以讨论，但不要争论。能友善地表示不同意见是有优越感的标志。 ７．让优点自己表现出来。拒绝谈论他人的缺陷。劝阻流言蜚语。那是宝贵时间的浪费，破坏性可能极强。 ８．照顾他人的感受。以损害他人为代价的风趣和幽默很不值得，你可能受到最意料不到的伤害。 ９．注意那些对你的歪曲评论。记住，传播信息的人可能不是世界上最实事求是的记者。就留下它吧，不会有人相信的。 神经过敏和理解力差是诽谤的常见原因。 １０．不要急于求得信任。尽最大努力，耐心等待。忘掉自我，让别人“记住”。这样获得的成功才非常甜美。 添加评论相关文章： 什么时候有必要建立人力资源部门？ 自立的陷阱是什么？ 美国必须与世界合作
Minimum Price on Alcohol (1)
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I heard this on the radio this morning and had to share it. Original articles are quoted below (please read first). So, once again, our brilliant police’s and government’s solution to a problem is: to punish EVERYONE for the actions of a criminal minority. Forget the rights of supermarkets to charge whatever they want; forget the rights of innocent civilians to purchase whatever price they deem acceptable. I love this line: “The immediate effect of ...
The Seven Blunders of the World (2)
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The Social Reformer took Gandhi's Seven Blunders of the World and tried to revise them for our current era. Personally, I prefer Gandhi's list, but I admire the effort and thought that went into the revised list, even if I disagree. More to the point, I admire their desire for a nonviolent world.Here is the list Gandhi created:The Seven Blunders of the World is a list that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi gave to his grandson Arun ...
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Mixx: чем занимаешься ты?(MS)Кисо: макет исправляю я(MS)Кисо: прислали мне правки клиентыMixx: не понимают в дизайне ничего ониMixx: силой воспользоваться для убеждения клиентов ты можешь(MS)Кисо: великий петрович в деле этом пробовал свои силы без результатно(MS)Кисо: им карту россии в место одно на сайте вставить надо, с петровичем великим ищем место подходящееMixx: в жопу им вставить карту следует, петровичу сообщи(MS)Кисо: петрович и сам думает об этом, но средства материальные врядли заплатят они в случае таком
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Political scientist Samantha Power tells the story of a complicated hero, Sergio Vieira de Mello. This UN diplomat walked a thin moral line, negotiating with the world's worst dictators to help their people survive crisis. It's a compelling story told with a fiery passion. (Recorded February 2008 in Monterey, California. Duration: 23:08.) Watch Samantha Power's talk on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances ...Contribute commentFrom bodzasfanta's contacts (164) permalink
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Barry Goldwater We continue our series of Liberty Maven’s Liberty Heroes list with Barry Goldwater. Goldwater was known as “Mr. Conservative”. He is credited with sparking the resurgence of the conservative political mindset in the 1960’s. He is also credited with having an impact on the libertarian movement. He is known for speaking his mind which reminds me of a certain doctor from Texas, Ron Paul. The best way to know Barry Goldwater is to ...Shared by Mike Fruchter (2227) Ontario Emperor (424)Contribute comment
