How would we expect the CEO or managers at such companies as Microsoft or Apple to react in an inflamed crisis situation? Indeed, how would we expect the president of the United States to react? We would expect high standards. Easy to say, one could say, if we have a phlegmatic temper and show self-restraint, […]
The Dialectic: Its Global Utility
What you may ask has the author Jane Austen to do with the dialectic? Well, quite a lot, if one look at one of her main novels, Sense and Sensibility which I have just finished reading for the umpteenth time. On the one hand, Austen seems to follow what Alistair MacIntyre terms as Aristotle’s ‘virtue ethics’ […]
Storytelling: Contagion makes those stories circulate
Although the story recalling the foundation of Hewlett-Packard is an old one, nevertheless it shows us the influence of storytelling and, especially, the role of contagion in its dissemination.
