Is smartphones the new “place” where we live?
Smartphone users have become “human snails carrying our homes in our pockets”, with a tendency to ignore friends and family in favour of their device, according to certain studies. A team of anthropologists from UCL spent more than a year documenting smartphone use in...
How to reclaim confidence?
Most people are creative from birth. When we are young, we like pretend play, ask bizarre questions, and make dinosaur-like drawings of blobs. But throughout time, many of us begin to squelch those urges as a result of socialization and formal education. We get the...
Challenges of Disruptive Change
For managers of large corporations, these are uncertain times. They have a poor track record of dealing with significant, disruptive change even before the Internet and globalization. For instance, only one department store—Dayton Hudson—became a pioneer in cheap...