October 29, 2015 ~ Written by: W.B. “Bud” Kirchner “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” ~ Philip Pullman Just to repeat a couple points I’ve made along the way: (1) This is not a “by the manual” Dale Carnegie course. Business (in my opinion) becomes such...
November 10, 2015 ~ Written by: W.B. “Bud” Kirchner “There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment in fact.” – Mark Twain (1883) I have chosen to repeat a quote cited by the ‘star’ of this for reasons I trust will become apparent. Let...
October 11, 2015 ~ Written by: W.B. “Bud” Kirchner “Death begins in the colon.” – Most agree that statement comes from a Russian scientist, Élie Metchnikoff, who won The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908. If nothing else, it highlights (in a macabre fashion I admit) the importance of the gut, or second brain,...
Today, I am thinking about the contrasts that stimulated me to write this collection of information: illustrating the disconnect of what science knows, in the context of the Business Brain Model (neuroscience, psychology and related cognitive sciences), and what business actually does in practice.
I have long said the three most important things about a business are people (customers), people (employees) and people (managers). But all too often, business is placed in a category of interaction where people and society and empathy don’t matter.