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30/06/2020 - Manipulative media
More emotions, less thinking
Creating a diversion is the favorite strategy of media. Important information isn't noticed amongst a huge number of smaller stupid stories. We constantly switch our attention to funny pictures and jokes, a diversion misguide people from the actual facts and figures to some funny pictures or other entertaining sources
Some advertisements use language, arguments, symbols, and intonations for children. Such communication makes people less critical. Brands use the imperative form, and they aim for the simplest feelings and impulses.
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06/06/2020 - Disarming anger
In this world
Hate never yet dispelled hate.
Only love dispels hate.
This is the law,
Ancient and inexhaustible.
(Buddhist wisdom, Dhammapada 3-5)
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01/06/2020 - Five S and five Zeros
Japanese efficiency and quality are well known over the World. What´s behind it?
The ability of organization and teamwork has been built up in Japan under Millenials, woven by a complex history and fascinating culture. The “Toyotism”, an industrial concept introduced by engineer Taiichi Ohno in Toyota car factory can explain something of the development from the past. For the one interested in industrial management, the Toyotism is a management system often compared with Taylorism and Fordism.
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10/04/2020 - Big Brother pulls the net tight
“Never let a good crisis go to waste!”
Rahm Emanuel, former Chief of Staff to...
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10/04/2020 - Civilization ?
When crisis come, the weak succumb and the strong survive. After the WWII, a propaganda often heard was that the American Marshall help saved Europe, especially the ruined and bombed Germany. Germany built up surprisingly fast and stood some decades later as the leading European industrial nation. If we can thank the Americans for something, is that they and their allied this time not plundered Germany like they had done after the first World War. Forget that money is the motor in any progress, it is rather counterproductive if we believe in money as the source of propulsion. The...
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