latest publications on oondi.com http://www.oondi.com 2008-11-19T23:39:01+01:00 text/html 2008-05-07T11:02:36+01:00 http://www.oondi.com ridleyduff http://www.oondi.com/en/read:206 Children are great teachers, if you listen to them. When I am tired and stressed, I am a useless parent. If my younger daughter, Bethany, marches into the living room and accuses her older sister of hitting her, I will call Natasha into the room, shout at her and send her to her room. Later, I will go to see her, explain that I was tired and stressed, and listen to what she has to say. If she's no... text/html 2008-05-07T11:01:59+01:00 http://www.oondi.com ridleyduff http://www.oondi.com/en/read:204 In the academic literature on organisation theory, the seminal work on emotion (Fineman, 2000) produced a series of counter-intuitive findings. Emotion, while linked to expectations, is not associated with our individual goals and aspirations. Instead, it was found to link more strongly to our status within various social groups. In gathering stories about emotion at work, researchers found that p... text/html 2008-05-07T11:01:36+01:00 http://www.oondi.com ridleyduff http://www.oondi.com/en/read:203 Life is an endless process of probing and searching for satisfying relationships for the purpose of economic and social gain. We constantly try to seduce each other for different reasons. Beyond seduction to satisfy our desire for love and sex, there are employers seducing employees (and vice versa), salespeople seducing customers, consultants seducing clients, advertisers seducing consumers, writ...