Episodes
Friday Jan 29, 2010
Make a decision!
Friday Jan 29, 2010
Friday Jan 29, 2010
Monday Jan 25, 2010
The Empathic Civilization
Monday Jan 25, 2010
Monday Jan 25, 2010
Friday Jan 22, 2010
Making decisions in a dangerous world
Friday Jan 22, 2010
Friday Jan 22, 2010
Monday Jan 18, 2010
The globalization of mental illness
Monday Jan 18, 2010
Monday Jan 18, 2010
Friday Jan 15, 2010
The science of compassion
Friday Jan 15, 2010
Friday Jan 15, 2010
The outpouring of aid and support for Haiti has been overwhelming. It should make us wonder if we are somehow hardwired to be compassionate, empathic and altruistic. Over the past year, amidst the financial crisis, the ideas of Ayn Rand and the supposed virtues of selfishness have gained new converts. Yet more and more science tells us that compassion, far from being weak, is the very quality that has enabled the successful evolution of our species and will ultimately determine our fate. The Greater Good Science Center, led by renown psychologist Dacher Keltner and based at UC Berkley, has been in the vanguard of this movement. The Center has, for the first time, published its writings in a new book entitled The Compassionate Instinct: The Science of Human Goodness. My conversation with Dacher Keltner:
Thursday Jan 14, 2010
The responsibility of command
Thursday Jan 14, 2010
Thursday Jan 14, 2010
Wednesday Jan 13, 2010
A good talk spoiled
Wednesday Jan 13, 2010
Wednesday Jan 13, 2010
Tuesday Jan 12, 2010
Why passion matters
Tuesday Jan 12, 2010
Tuesday Jan 12, 2010
Monday Jan 11, 2010
Globalization = Good
Monday Jan 11, 2010
Monday Jan 11, 2010
Friday Jan 08, 2010
The best and the brightest
Friday Jan 08, 2010
Friday Jan 08, 2010
Janine Wedel is getting lots of attention for her book Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market. But is the attention justified? Has she simply taken the fundamental idea that there is a core group of talented and smart people, on both sides of the political equation, that move between government and the private sector and works hard to move their agenda's forward. From Kennedy's Harvard mafia to Reagan's California kitchen cabinet to Clinton's DLC advisor's to Obama's own search for the best and the brightest, there is absolutely nothing new about these practices. Advisors come and go with Presidents and administrations. We change administrations and we change advisors and cabinet members. In turn, the old advisors become a kind of shadow government. Think of the British system and their permanent shadow government. We don't have this, we have businesses and think tanks instead. Yet Janine Wedel tries hard to make something sinister about this common practice.My conversation with Jeanie Wedel:
Wednesday Jan 06, 2010
The Price of everything, the value of nothing
Wednesday Jan 06, 2010
Wednesday Jan 06, 2010
Tuesday Jan 05, 2010
If you can't solve the problem, make a bigger problem
Tuesday Jan 05, 2010
Tuesday Jan 05, 2010
A new year and a new decade, but many of the same old problems. In trying to face the complexity of problems and issues facing us in the 21st Century, sometimes we just can't figure out what problem we are solving. We get so caught up in our assessment or spin on the problem, that we loose site of what we're really trying to accomplish. Business professor Ian Mitroff, in his book Dirty Rotten Strategies: How We Trick Ourselves and Others into Solving the Wrong Problems Precisely argues that by focusing on the wrong problem, we usually make matters worse. My conversation with Ian Mitroff: