Month: August 2011

“Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself…True happiness is born of self-reliance.”

Science has managed to reveal some crazy things that fly in the face of almost every commonly accepted management practice. Here’s the latest: Rewards for top performers lead them to worse performance. And if you want to foster innovation, bonuses won’t work either. Rather, it’s all about letting people slip from under line management and strike out on their own, on projects they care about.

Women who start smoking are more likely to develop coronary heart disease than men who take up the habit, say researchers.

“Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits.”“

New DNA discoveries add weight to the idea that MS is triggered when the body’s immune system turns against itself.

The NHS needs more trained doctors in maternity units to prevent unnecessary deaths due to ‘substandard care’, say experts.

“Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.”

Soy appears to do nothing to relieve the symptoms of menopause, scientists say, despite the high hopes of many.

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”

All patients undergoing cancer treatment should be told to do 150 minutes of physical exercise every week, says a report by Macmillan Cancer Support.