Wes is an expert in Online Lead Generation. Born and raised in the beautiful country of Zimbabwe, like anyone with any sense he left in 2001 and now lives in London. This is his tumblelog.
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Giving handouts to Africans is harming not helping
In this provocative TED talk, Ugandan journalist Andrew Mwenda asks us to take a completely new look at the “African question” — to look beyond the media’s stories of poverty, civil war and helplessness and see the opportunities for creating wealth and happiness throughout the continent.
Matt Taibbi on how Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression.
While rewards are effective at producing temporary compliance, they are strikingly ineffective at producing lasting changes in attitudes or behavior. The news gets worse. About two dozen studies from the field of social psychology conclusively show that people who expect to receive a reward do not perform as well as those who expect nothing. This result, which holds for all sorts of rewards, people and tasks, is most dramatic when creativity is involved.