Corporate culture: It’s not destiny; but that enduring sense of ‘the way we do things…even if we’ve forgotten them’
I gratefully acknowledge the influence of Dr Edgar Schein on my understanding of organisational culture and cultural DNA. Recently, several of my clients have become extremely interested in exploring what they call their “corporate DNA.” At first I resisted because I was concerned that this metaphor implied that they were...
Factual guilt: New study says trauma and moral injury rose steeply during Covid pandemic
During coronavirus pandemic lockdown between 2019 and early 2022, researchers turned their focus to the medical frontlines to understand moral anguish. One recent study led by Jason Nieuwsma, a clinical psychologist at Duke University School of Medicine, analysed data from a March 2021 survey of health care workers’ moral injury...
Lasting moral anguish: How severe loss of sense of goodness new studies show impacts quality of life
On a Sunday evening in September 1994, David Peters drove to a church service in Beckley, West Virginia, as the sun set over the horizon. He was 19 years old, just back from Marine Corps boot camp. He hadn’t been behind the wheel of a car all summer. The road...
Age just a number: Better remuneration, diet and lifestyle change makes playing past 30 years a new normal
One of the big anomalies of this summer’s transfer window has been the amount of money spent on what are perceived to be ‘older’ players. Whether it’s the reportedly boracic Barcelona dropping £40 million on the 33-year old Robert Lewandowski, Lionel Messi still plodding along for PSG at the ripe...
We are fighting against two armies: Rwanda and Uganda – army commander says of situation in Congo
Aid officials in eastern the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) say they have limited funding to support recently displaced people and that insecurity has disrupted their operations. “For 2022, we appealed for 1.8 billion dollars, we received barely 20 per cent of this amount,” says Joseph Inganji, head of...
Aid agencies in eastern DR Congo overstretched as M23 and other rebel groups spring back to life
The return of a long dormant rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is overstretching an underfunded humanitarian relief operation and piling hardship onto communities that are already contending with dozens of other armed insurgencies. For several months, the March 23 Movement (M23) rebel group has fought Congolese...
Reading University study says regular intake of B6 and B12 vitamins can treat depression, anxiety disorders
Everyone may feel anxious or sad at times. However, some people may experience life-disrupting levels of these emotions on a regular basis, developing into a mental health disorder that requires treatment. Researchers at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom studied how vitamin B6 and vitamin B12 may impact...
Makeweight: De Jong getting ‘shirty’ at Man United as clueless Arsenal fail to sign De Bruyne
The football media is particularly silly today, with Lisandro Martinez getting his dream Manchester United shirt number allocated and then taken away again… Things change very quickly in the extraordinary world of dream shirt numbers. ‘Lisandro Martinez can grab dream shirt number following Manchester United announcement’ – Manchester Evening News,...
From onset leading television channels were involved in a dogfight for Premier league broadcast rights
Initial bids came from four parties that were interested in the management and running of the newly-founded English Premier League – two of which came from groups that were considered to be non-starters, one of which hoped to set up a football-only pay-TV channel. ITV didn’t want to work with...
Down memory lane: How after showing commercial promise English football transited to Premier League
By the time the formation of the Premier League was announced on April 5, 1991, much had changed from the FA’s original lofty intentions. Of the suggestions in Alex Fynn’s report on how a new top division could segue with the interests of the game in a general sense, only...
