BPS Occupational Digest: Stuck on your ideas: fixation in group brainstorms...

BPS Occupational Digest: Stuck on your ideas: fixation in group brainstorms...: Brainstorming, when people gather to generate ideas together, is great in theory: many perspectives mesh to generate diverse outputs. I...

Are we really blind to Internet banners?

Are we really blind to Internet banners?

BPS Occupational Digest: Noise and music are more distracting to introverts...

BPS Occupational Digest: Noise and music are more distracting to introverts...: Many workplaces allow the playing of radio or recorded music during working hours, providing a chance to personalise and brighten the workin...

For Christians, Dawkins and the Qur'an leave a bad taste in the mouth, literally

For Christians, Dawkins and the Qur'an leave a bad taste in the mouth, literally

Positive pollyannas more frustrated by unmet expec...

BPS Occupational Digest: Positive pollyannas more frustrated by unmet expec...: A tendency to view the world positively yields many benefits, such as higher wellbeing and a sense of personal effectiveness that gets you ...

Economic indicator

Have come to realise that we have another indicator of the economic state of play - the fuel guage. The moment my fuel guage is more than 1/4 full then I know that the recession is over. Whilst the amber light is on I know that we are still in recession. Simple. Who needs price indices and Mervyn King.

Take vitamin pill, eat cake. How supplements can encourage unhealthy behaviour

Take vitamin pill, eat cake. How supplements can encourage unhealthy behaviour

We sit near people who look like us

This is not good news if, as happens to me, rotund and ripe smelling people always make a beeline for the seat next to yours on public transport:




We sit near people who look like us

Has the Internet become an external hard drive for the brain?

Has the Internet become an external hard drive for the brain?

It's that knob off the telly...

Does retail therapy work?

Does retail therapy work?

10 Keys to Leading Creative People | TonyMorganLive.com

10 Keys to Leading Creative People | TonyMorganLive.com

An afternoon nap tunes out negative emotions, tunes in positive ones

An afternoon nap tunes out negative emotions, tunes in positive ones

Traditional direct mail creates a more lasting impression than new media

Read all about it in this study from Millward Brown.

subtle

I think our bank is trying to tell me something - they keep sending me paying in books

Lovely packaging

Few companies do really great packaging, the sort that you really don't want to open because it's just so perfect. Apple spring to mind and now Rapha, the love 'em (that'd be me) or hate 'em cycling accessories brand, join the party. Introducing Rapha soap. I've no doubt it's good soap but I simply couldn't bear to open such wonderful packaging. The map of Mont Ventoux is a beautiful touch.







To order your Rapha soap click here.

Wonder if Lotus do a bike rack?

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Quality service...

...not

accepting that we had shocking weather, Christmas and New Year and it only had a second class frank, I have to say that 4 days short of a month is taking the whotsit to deliver.

A letter posted in Manchester on the 14/12/10 (c. 30 miles away as the pigeon flies) it landed here at Pigs & Bees towers on 10/1/11 - shocking

Re-MOO-ving stress in the workplace

Picture the scene - farm yard (Longley Farm), snapper (aka Owen Phillips) and willing client (Yorkshire Therapies' Marsha Dawson) - the brief was simple - shoot the client with the cows (not literally), hence demonstrating the intrinsic benefics of massage and complementary therapies to employees in the workplace. Oh no, not a simple thing. Cue relunctant Jersey, nervous yet brave client and intrepid snapper. Needless to say we decamped to a safer enclosure of cute calves. Job done.

The Longley Farm produces some of the nation’s favourite dairy products and the agreed to take an unconventional approach to maximising productivity - enlisting the help of Huddersfield based complementary therapy practice Yorkshire Therapies.

Whether a calm workforce is the secret ingredient in Longely Farm’s delicious products they wouldn’t say, but the massages received an overwhelming thumbs up from Longley’s staff (the cows however now have a deep distrust of anyone with a camera or smelling of tea tree).

Anyone interested in finding out more about how a corporate stress reduction day could benefit their organisation should call Marsha Allen Dawson at Yorkshire Therapies on 01484 664 774 or visit www.yorkshiretherapies.com to find out more about the range of treatments available both off and on site.