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Beste protestsong EVER en goed advies van Hugh Laurie (aka Dr. House)

Beste protestsong EVER en goed advies van Hugh Laurie (aka Dr. House)

by J. Stevens · feb 7, 2013

Hugh Laurie, onder meer bekend in zijn rol als Dr. House, haalt zijn mondharmonica tevoorschijn en laat zien dat hij niet alleen een geniale misantroop en arts is, althans in genoemde rol. Hij is ook een mompelende protestzanger. Hij heeft een prachtig advies voor de wereld, dus zing maar mee: “All we gotta do is___”. Eigenlijk best een simpele oplossing. Waarom hebben we hier nooit eerder aan gedacht!?

 
 

Categorie: diversen, Muziek, Uncategorized

Is het effectiever om het slechte te bestraffen of het goede te belonen?

Is het effectiever om het slechte te bestraffen of het goede te belonen?

by J. Stevens · jan 21, 2013

De Canadese politie ging ‘Positieve Bekeuringen’ uitschrijven, waarmee goed gedrag beloond werd.

...jeugdrecidive werd gereduceerd van 60% tot 8%. De criminaliteit in zijn geheel werd met 40% gereduceerd. Jeugdcriminaliteit werd gehalveerd. En het kostte een-tiende van de kosten die er in het traditionele judiciële systeem mee gemoeid waren.“ [vert.: JS]

Via Harvard Business Review:

For years, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) detachment in Richmond, Canada ran like any other law enforcement bureaucracy and experienced similar results: recidivism or reoffending rates ran at around 60%, and they were experiencing spiraling rates of youth crime. This forward-thinking Canadian detachment, led by a young, new superintendent, Ward Clapham, challenged the core assumptions of the policing system itself. He noticed that the vast majority of police work was reactive. He asked: “Could we design a system that encouraged people to not commit crime in the first place?” Indeed, their strategic intent was a clever play on words: “Take No Prisoners.” 

 Their approach was to try to catch youth doing the right things and give them a Positive Ticket. The ticket granted the recipient free entry to the movies or to a local youth center. They gave out an average of 40,000 tickets per year. That is three times the number of negative tickets over the same period. As it turns out, and unbeknownst to Clapham, that ratio (2.9 positive affects to 1 negative affect, to be precise) is called the Losada Line. It is the minimum ratio of positive to negatives that has to exist for a team to flourish. On higher-performing teams (and marriages for that matter) the ratio jumps to 5:1. But does it hold true in policing?

According to Clapham, youth recidivism was reduced from 60% to 8%. Overall crime was reduced by 40%. Youth crime was cut in half. And it cost one-tenth of the traditional judicial system.

 

Categorie: Uncategorized Tags: artikelen derden

I said: ‘Would the Codeedoddee?’

I said: ‘Would the Codeedoddee?’

by J. Stevens · dec 29, 2012

Autorijles door kinderen

Een kind geeft ‘rijles’ aan een ander kind. Twee volwassenen playbacken wat de kinderen zeiden en spelen de scene ‘realistisch’ na, wat een komische situatie oplevert. Je weet zelluf:

Categorie: Uncategorized

Herman Wijffels over ‘Sociale Innovatie’ (filmpje uit 2010)

Herman Wijffels over ‘Sociale Innovatie’ (filmpje uit 2010)

by J. Stevens · dec 7, 2012

Wat is ‘sociale innovatie’?

Herman Wijffels legt het uit in onderstaand filmpje uit 2010: 

 

En het is natuurlijk: Universiteit Utrecht (UU) en niet: Universiteit van Utrecht, zoals de filmmaker schrijft (of heeft u weleens van de UvU gehoord?) 

Categorie: artikelen derden, Uncategorized

Hoe kun je voorspellen welke CEO’s hun onderneming om zeep zullen helpen?

Hoe kun je voorspellen welke CEO’s hun onderneming om zeep zullen helpen?

by J. Stevens · dec 7, 2012

Het antwoord is verrassend eenvoudig te geven:

Tel hoe vaak ze het woordje: “ik” in hun jaarlijkse ‘shareholders letter’ (aan aandeelhouders) gebruiken.


Meer lezen? Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else: Laura Rittenhouse, an unusual type of financial analyst, counts the number of times the word “I” occurs in annual letters to shareholders from corporate CEOs, contending that this and other evidence in the letters helps predict company performance (basic finding: Egomaniacs are bad news).

Categorie: artikelen derden, Uncategorized

Chinese Government and The National People’s Congress (NPC) sing together [humor]

Chinese Government and The National People’s Congress (NPC) sing together [humor]

by J. Stevens · nov 8, 2012

The Chinese government, The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the National People’s Congress (NPC) sing ‘True Colours’ together at the Great Hall of the People’s Great Auditorium. Watch this funny videoclip. Source: LuckyTV / VARA

 

 

Categorie: Uncategorized

Don’t Do That – Stephen Dunn

Don’t Do That – Stephen Dunn

by J. Stevens · nov 3, 2012

Don’t Do That

by Stephen Dunn (June 8, 2009)

It was bring-your-own if you wanted anything
hard, so I brought Johnnie Walker Red
along with some resentment I’d held in
for a few weeks, which was not helped
by the sight of little nameless things
pierced with toothpicks on the tables,
or by talk that promised to be nothing
if not small. But I’d consented to come,
and I knew what part of the house
their animals would be sequestered,
whose company I loved. What else can I say,
–
except that old retainer of slights and wrongs,
that bad boy I hadn’t quite outgrown—
I’d brought him along, too. I was out
to cultivate a mood. My hosts greeted me,
but did not ask about my soul, which was when
I was invited by Johnnie Walker Red
to find the right kind of glass, and pour.
I toasted the air. I said hello to the wall,
then walked past a group of women
dressed to be seen, undressing them
one by one, and went up the stairs to where
 –
the Rottweilers were, Rosie and Tom,
and got down with them on all fours.
They licked the face I offered them,
and I proceeded to slick back my hair
with their saliva, and before long
I felt like a wild thing, ready to mess up
the party, scarf the hors d’oeuvres.
But the dogs said, No, don’t do that,
calm down, after a while they open the door
and let you out, they pet your head, and everything
you might have held against them is gone,
and you’re good friends again. Stay, they said.

poezie-fernweh-magazine


Original Source: The NewYorker
Read more https://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2009/06/08/090608po_poem_dunn#ixzz2BAcHXush

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Categorie: artikelen derden, Uncategorized

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