Tag Archives: Morale

Job Challenge or Play It Safe?

I am recently faced with the question, if I shall take up a very challenging position, asking the best of my abilities, thus meaning fun, but at high risk of a temporary assignment … Or play it save and go for a job I can do good, but which does not pose any real challenge [...]

Old School – New School

Some of you have already read the Sapphilosophy-Blog I created in September as a result of another discussion with friends on philosophical issues like love, friendship, honor. Very famous in Germany on the topic is “the Knigge”, his book “On Human Relations” being considered to date the guideline for respectful interpersonal relations.In the past weeks, [...]

Value of Time

Having linked Momo last week, I know the book is worldwide not as well known as in Germany. It is the story about a little girl fighting the Grey Gentlemen, who live of time and suck it (just like vampires) from us. We have less and less time to be happy. People themselves become grey. [...]

Blood Money

An Inuit chief once compared the human life on Earth with cancer. Instead of looking after the world and trying to live in balance, we exploit its resources, extinct other life-forms, farm life, even kill and eat other intelligence, such as whales. No symbiosis but parasite. Like vampires. What was not said, but I imply [...]

Managers Learning From The Nuremberg Trials

Thanks to friends like Sapphire, I discuss lately questions of Ethics and Morale. If you like to join into the discussion, I recommend you our private Sapphilosophy-blog. If I look at the managers today, they hide behind the same old reasons as did the people with powers in the Third Reich. Did we not learn [...]

Are You Good At Selling Yourself?

This question was asked in LinkedIn a while ago. My preferred answer:“I find the phrase not only cheap but to ‘buy into’ means you allow yourself to be a part of the meat market, and become an object/subject to be… see more bartered.” [Sapphire] Thanks to LinkedIn, I have the fortune to have become friends [...]