Publish at October 09 2024 Updated October 09 2024
In a world of untimely interruptions, how the facilitator develops his "art of attention"...
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The mirage of the sharing economy
The sharing economy has been making headlines in recent years. Services like Uber and Airbnb are all the rage, much to the chagrin of traditional industries that are calling for them to be banned. While these small, lucrative businesses meet needs, there are nonetheless ethical issues that they drag with them. The illusion of a new economy gradually flies apart when we start digging deeper.
Continuous skills upgrading, a panacea for skills obsolescence
What will tomorrow bring? In a context where all the specialists say they don't know what the world of work will look like in 20 or 30 years' time, the only thing they seem to agree on is that we need to counter the obsolescence of skills. Continuing training is the tool of choice for professional circles.
The distorting mirror: when structure prefers narrative to reality
Behind the rhetoric of benevolence, some institutions sacrifice their best people to preserve a certain internal comfort. Girard, Freyd and Dejours shed light on this mechanism: the scapegoat is chosen, the slander validated, the competence denied. The real institutional manipulator is not the one who lies, but the one who chooses to believe it.
Empathy, sympathy and compathy
Empathy is invited in the reflections on the professions of the relationship. The manager and the teacher must "be empathetic". But empathy is not sympathy. These two postures imply the existence of another posture that we will call compathy
