When you are highly dependent on something, you are addicted to this something. You can be addicted to chemical substances like Alcohol, Nicotine and Drugs but it is also possible to Addict to the feeling of Power, a Concept (Dialogues, Cycles), an Activity (Work (Burn-Out), Gambling, Sex, Games), an Emotion (Extacy, Power, Sadness), a Person [...]
About Addiction & Burn-Out
By July 6th, 2009, underMany Reasons to Believe that the Economy will not Recover in a Short Time
By June 24th, 2009, underThe Unemployement and the Stock Market are rising for some time now. A new Stock Market Bubble is building up and will explode in the near future. The biggest Bubble is certainly the US Deficit Bubble. The Stock Market Bubble and the Deficit Bubble will explode as soon as the major creditors (China, India, …) [...]
About Behavioral Economics: Why Hawks Always Win and Doves Always Lose
By May 29th, 2009, underThe belief in Rational Decision Making has been the focus of Economic Theory for a very long time. Although everybody knew that Humans are Highly Impulsive and Emotional, Economists based their theoretical models of the Market on a Rational Human Being who is always able to Calculate the best Alternative possible. This Theory is wrong. [...]
About Enterprise 2.0 and the New World of Work
By May 17th, 2009, underAt this moment there is a lot of discussion going on about the New World of Work. In the New World of Work the new developments of the Internet 2.0 (Social Networks, Blogging, Twittering, etc) are used to Speed up the Work of the Knowlegde Worker. The infrastructure to make this possible is called Enterprise [...]
About Vocation
By May 5th, 2009, underA person’s happiness and satisfaction in life is a function of how he perceives work. People perceive their work in three general categories: jobs, careers, and vocation. People who perceive their work as a Vocation report the highest Satisfaction with Life in general. A job is just a means of earning an income. When people [...]
About the Psychological Defense System
By April 8th, 2009, underHuman beings and the other organisms always want to avoid pain. There are many mechanisms called the Psychological Defenses to do this. One of them, called Repression, blocks painful memories. People Repress the thought that Prices of Houses and Shares always go Up and Down, Excessive Borrowing is Dangerous and Politicians always act on the [...]
About the Cooperative
By April 3rd, 2009, underOn 8 June 1783 the Laki Volcano in Iceland erupted. During 9 months the volcano produced an estimated 120 million tons of sulfur dioxide. This amount was ten-times more than the amount that now comes from all of western European industrial sources in a year. The Explosion of the Laki Vulcano triggered the Explosion of [...]
About the Calvinistic Work Ethic
By March 12th, 2009, underThe Hebrew belief system viewed Work, seen as Manual Labour, as a Curse devised by God to punish Adam and Eve when they sinned in the Garden of Eden. Ponos is the Greek word for work, which originated from the Latin poena, meaning sorrow. At it’s core, work was associated with pain and drudgery. It was the divine [...]
