I stumbled across an article last week, mentioning a term that was new to me, yet simultaneously enraged me: Xennial. Apparently, Xennials are people who straddle the Generation X and Millennial generations – born between 1977 and 1983. The term has been ‘invented’ specifically to accommodate a group of people who don’t feel as if they fit into the X […]
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We live in a time where the pace of change is frenetic. Twenty years ago, there was no Google and no Facebook. Amazon was still only a baby and Apple – while cool – was almost 4 years away from the launch of the iPod. It’s 2017 and those four companies now dominate our lives. So much so that Scott […]
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Last Thursday I went to a fascinating talk at the Wellcome Collection by Dr Alice White. It covered the work psychiatrists and psychologists from the Tavistock Institute carried out for the British Army during and after WW2. One part of this covered the selection process for choosing officers and how they helped introduce methods, such as non-verbal reasoning tests, word […]
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