The GO Society has quietly put up the Exploration in Management training films. These films, produced for the Glacier Institute of Management and narrated by Lord Wilfred Brown, the retired Managing Director of Glacier Metal Company and Prochancellor of Brunel University, show how the radical ideas Brown developed with Dr. Jaques work from a manager’s point of view.

I’m glad that these are finally available online.
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Jack Fallow recently sent me a link to a TED session by Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi, the FLOW social psychologist [psychosociologist?] at the University of Chicago who also did the amazing Meaning of Things research. (Thanks, Jack!) Which of course led me to something else entirely.

Jennifer 8. Lee of the New York Times has been chasing down the origin of American Chinese food. It’s not recognizable to the Chinese, and is an almost entirely American invention, made by Chinese-Americans who wanted to appeal to Anglo-American tastes.

The amazing thing is that there are more Chinese restaurants in the U.S. than all McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s (another hamburger shop) and KFC restaurants combined. That’s an amazing number. My own city, white as can be, supports five, one less than our combined total for those four fast-food shops.

Why is this interesting? Because this amazing revolution in American food tastes has no known creator.
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