# Dr Dennis Price
> Dr Dennis Price is an Australian based entrepreneur, coach and author.

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## Articles
- [IF YOU SPOT A GURU, DO THIS](https://www.drdennisprice.com/if-you-spot-a-guru-do-this/): The Guru Economy Is a Scam With Better Lighting Every guru is selling the same confession they will never make: the method did not work well enough to live on.
- [HOW USELESS SMALL THINGS BUILD MEANING](https://www.drdennisprice.com/how-useless-small-things-build-meaning/): The Power of Weak Ties How "Useless" Interactions Build Values, Identity, and Culture Two people are having an argument over dinner that neither of them can win.
- [YOU FAIL WHEN CHOOSING THE WRONG VERB](https://www.drdennisprice.com/you-fail-when-choosing-the-wrong-verb/): There's a moment in every high jumper's training that looks like madness to an outsider.
- [HOW THE WEST IS FAILING DIFFERENTLY THAN OTHER CULTURES](https://www.drdennisprice.com/how-the-west-is-failing-differently-to-othe-cultures/): The Failure Mode Is the Feature A goat goes missing from a compound.
- [Filters, Frames, and the Gap: How We Turn Events into Lives](https://www.drdennisprice.com/filters-frames-and-the-gap-how-we-turn-events-into-lives/): Two men mow a lawn or two women clean the same kitchen - or the other way around if that makes you happy; but the same story happens all the time.
- [The Wisdom You Earn unless you're a Democrat](https://www.drdennisprice.com/part-two-the-wisdom-you-earn/): Epistemic Humility is what divides us The algorithm does not know you exist.
- [Your Accent is not What You Say](https://www.drdennisprice.com/your-accent-is-not-what-you-say/): A commenter on one of my videos told me he was genuinely interested in the topic — an IQ debate, decent subject, decent audience for it, but he wasn't going to watch because the graphics were AI generated.
- [The Price of Equality](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-price-of-equality/): A group of drunk footballers hire some entertainment for a night, something goes wrong, and a complaint gets made.
- [Power, Incentives, and Human Nature: The Machinery Behind the Kitchen Table](https://www.drdennisprice.com/power-incentives-and-human-nature/): A woman in a Sydney suburb sits at her kitchen table on a Sunday night with a spreadsheet open.
- [Not Racist. Not Naive. Just a Different Clock.](https://www.drdennisprice.com/not-racist-not-naive-just-a-different-clock-rljy/): In a training room in Johannesburg in the early 1990s, I watched a graduate intake sit a standard battery of reasoning tests.
- [Paradise Lost: The Modern Version](https://www.drdennisprice.com/paradise-lost-the-modern-version/): The Unguarded InheritanceYou judge before you cross the road.
- [The Democrats Know Better Right?](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-democrats-know-better-right/): A woman in Melbourne could terminate a pregnancy without notifying her parents, her partner, or her local member of parliament.
- [The Fatal Confidence of Modernity](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-fatal-confidence-of-modernity/): Two men on a dusty road, walking away from a prison.
- [Is the Women's Vote a failed experiment?](https://www.drdennisprice.com/is-the-womens-vote-a-failed-experiment/): The suffrage story now comes to us laminated.
- [The Rise of Islam and the Decline of Western Christianity Reveal About Human Nature](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-rise-of-islam-and-the-decline-of-western-christianity-reveal-about-human-nature/): One of the great assumptions of modern Western culture is that human beings naturally move toward greater freedom.
- [THE LOST TOOLS OF LEARNING](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-lost-tools-of-learning/): Sometimes we just have to relearn what people knew a long time ago.
- [The Wisdom You Didn't Ask For](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-wisdom-you-didnt-ask-for/): You kneel by the hospital bed, or you sit in the car park before the meeting where you're about to lose the contract, or you stare at the second glass of wine and ask, quietly, for the thing to change.
- [The River Was Never Yours](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-river-was-never-yours/): There is an island in the Nile, just south of modern Cairo, where one of the most important instruments in the ancient world was not a weapon, a monument, or a machine, but a staircase.
- [The Clockwork Rebellion](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-clockwork-rebellion/): Why the Smartest Case Against Free Will Secretly Proves the Opposite, so you ARE free to choose
- [The Hidden Clock: Time, Culture, and the Unequal Fit of Modernity](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-hidden-clock-time-culture-and-the-unequal-fit-of-modernity/): Every civilisation carries a clock inside it.
- [AGENCY - THE LAST ARCHITECT OF HUMANITY](https://www.drdennisprice.com/agency-the-last-architect-of-humanity/): The Post-Scarcity Horizon: Agency as the Last Constraint Preamble I have written before about theodicy - the age-old debate about why there is suffering.
- [F_ you - I was here first](https://www.drdennisprice.com/f-you-i-was-here-first/): The First Shall Be Last: Why being 'first; beats Creation in One Domain—and Nowhere Else Imagine you're at the Sydney Olympics, watching the men's 100-metre final.
- [KIAMA'S FINANCIAL CROSSROADS](https://www.drdennisprice.com/no-title-2gbd/): What Worked Elsewhere, and What Could Work Here REGULAR READERS PLEASE IGNORE - THIS IS PERSONAL It applies to my community only.
- [HUMAN AGENCY IN THE AGE OF AI](https://www.drdennisprice.com/human-agency-in-the-age-of-ai/): Agency, Abundance, and the Reordering of Human Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence In the rapidly evolving landscape of 2026, artificial intelligence is not merely a tool or a technology—it is a mirror and a multiplier.
- [HELLO DARKNESS MY OLD FRIEND](https://www.drdennisprice.com/hello-darkness-my-old-friend/): Suffering/stress/disorder is the default state across all complex adaptive systems (physical, psychological, social, evolutionary, theological) These systems possess a metabolic mechanism for converting stress into capacity, meaning, or systemic benefit This mechanism succeeds or fails based on: Recognition of suffering as default (not exceptional) Appropriate dosage (Zone 2 vs Zone 3) Active engagement with metabolic process (reframing, choosing suffering, seeking generative outputs) Recognition of suffering as default (not exceptional) Appropriate dosage (Zone 2 vs Zone 3) Active engagement with metabolic process (reframing, choosing suffering, seeking generative outputs) Even when individual metabolisation fails, the mechanism can succeed at collective/systemic scales Proper orientation means developing this metabolic capacity rather than attempting to eliminate all suffering—because chosen, progressive stress builds the very capacity needed to handle unchosen suffering
- [THE EMOTIONAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE WEST](https://www.drdennisprice.com/emotional-architecture/): The Emotional Architecture of Western Civilisation: A Theory of Eras Introduction: Beyond Material Determinism
- [THE TYRANNY OF MINORITIES - PART 2](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-tyranny-of-minorities-part-2/): Explore the asymmetric influence of uncompromising minorities, a social phenomenon where a small, inflexible group dictates terms to a flexible majority.
- [THE TYRANNY OF MINORITIES - PART 1](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-tyranny-of-minorities-part-1/): Explore the asymmetric influence of uncompromising minorities, a social phenomenon where a small, inflexible group dictates terms to a flexible majority.
- [THE PARASITE AND THE PLATFORM](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-parasite-and-the-platform/): The Attention Economy, Political Incentives, and the Quiet Erosion of the Inner Life through manufactured outrage
- [YOUR BRAIN IS STILL ON THE SAVANNA](https://www.drdennisprice.com/your-brain-is-still-on-the-savanna/): Why Every Purchase You Make Is Controlled by a 200,000-Year-Old Survival System A guide to the hidden wiring behind every buying decision you have ever made The Two-Dollar Mystery
- [A POLITICAL MANIFESTO](https://www.drdennisprice.com/a-political-manifesto/): This is an invitation for political parties to come and get my vote.
- [WHY AUSTRALIA WAS SAID TO BECOME THE WHITE TRASH OF ASIA](https://www.drdennisprice.com/why-australia-was-said-to-become-the-white-trash-of-asia/): This was a claim made by Lew Kuan Yew more than 4 decades ago.
- [THE COST OF CORPORATE DISTRACTION](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-cost-of-corporate-distraction/): The Lend Lease Wind-up: Australia’s own "Budweiser Moment" I take no pleasure in writing this about a past employer.
- [WHY FACTS FAIL](https://www.drdennisprice.com/why-facts-fail/): A Christian Perspective on Human Cognition and Divine Truth The age-old question—"Why do facts often fail to change people's minds?
- [FOOLED BY PHILANTHROPY](https://www.drdennisprice.com/fooled-by-philanthropy-/): The Bedrock of Freedom: What Is the Proper Role of Law?
- [THE KARAMAZOV CODE](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-karamazov-code/): What a 19th-Century Russian Novel Reveals About Entrepreneurial Chaos Introduction: Your Startup's Secret Weapon is a 150-Year-Old Russian Novel What can a sprawling, 19th-century Russian novel—a dense tapestry of patricide, faith, doubt, and profound family dysfunction—possibly teach you about running a business in the 21st century?
- [FIXING CAPITALISM - PART 3](https://www.drdennisprice.com/fixing-capitalism-part-3/): The Path Forward: Constrained Prosperity Economics Why a Simple Return to the Past is Not the Answer The manifest failures and frictions of 21st-century global capitalism have, understandably, led some to call for a return to older, seemingly more straightforward economic models.
- [SACRED ALGORITHM #4](https://www.drdennisprice.com/sacred-algorithm-3/): Lex Aequilibrii - The Law of Balance Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
- [THE PATRIOTS YOU MOCK, THE PATRIOTS YOU NEED](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-patriots-you-mock-the-patriots-you-need/): The essay closes with a sober reflection:Patriotism is essential, but it is also dangerous.
- [FIXING CAPITALISM - PART 2](https://www.drdennisprice.com/fixing-capitalism-part-2/): A Tale of Two Systems: The US vs.
- [YOU ARE NOT WELCOME](https://www.drdennisprice.com/you-are-not-welcome/): Welcome to Country has evolved into a divisive, performative practice that reinforces difference rather than dissolving it.
- [SACRED ALGORITHM #3](https://www.drdennisprice.com/sacred-algorithm-3-mrw4/): Lex Integritatis - The Law of Integrity You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
- [FIXING CAPITALISM - PART 1](https://www.drdennisprice.com/fixing-capitalism-part-1/): The Agnostic Nature of Capital: Theoretical Ideals vs.
- [THE FOUNTAINHEAD](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-fountainhead/): Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead is not merely a story of architectural rivalry; it is a profound philosophical investigation into "Individualism versus Collectivism, not in Politics but in Man’s Soul".
- [SACRED ALGORITHM #1](https://www.drdennisprice.com/sacred-algorhitm-1/): Chapter 1: Lex Primatus - The Law of Primacy You shall have no other gods before me.
- [LEFT VS RIGHT: ON GOVERNANCE AND POWER](https://www.drdennisprice.com/left-vs-right-on-governance-and-power/): A Personal Political Philosophy A quick bit of background: I grew as a child of Apartheid in South Africa, with all the concomitant benefits - most notably, good schooling and even University bursary.
- [THE TRIFECTA OF TYRANNICAL EMOTIONS](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-trifecta-of-tyrannical-emotions/): Need, Want, and Fear—and the Quiet Surrender of Human Agency I'll be honest with you - today's sermon kinda sucked.
- [YOU DON'T HATE RICH PEOPLE ENOUGH - BECAUSE YOU ARE STUPID](https://www.drdennisprice.com/you-dont-hate-rich-people-enough-because-you-are-stupid/): I have just reread Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged'.
- [ATLAS SHRUGGED AND GOD SMILED](https://www.drdennisprice.com/atlas-shrugged-and-god-smiled/): Ayn Rand’s tome - Atlas Shrugged - had a profound influence on me when I was younger.
- [THE SHIRKY PRINCIPLE](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-shirky-principle/): Why are hospitals hotbeds of infection, instead of safe, sterile spaces?
- [THE ION AGE](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-ion-age/): Every wannabe futurist wants to pick the future before it happens — but the vast majority really only identify trends when the trends are already obvious.
- [THE PROBLEM WITH MIGRANTS](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-problem-with-migrants/): Immigration is an issue, I am sure you will agree.
- [LIVING IN PARADISE](https://www.drdennisprice.com/living-in-paradise/): To understand the full power of the Ten Commandments, it is useful to imagine what a society would look like if it achieved perfect adherence to them.
- [WHEN MAPS FAIL](https://www.drdennisprice.com/when-maps-fail/): Napoleon's Russian Catastrophe and the Modern Crisis of Outdated Models On 24 June 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte stood on the banks of the Niemen River, reviewing what was arguably the largest invasion force Europe had ever assembled.
- [THE GOLDEN CALF: ISRAEL'S BURDEN THEN AND NOW](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-golden-calf-israels-burden-then-and-now/): Christianity is unique amongst all religions.
- [THE IDEOLOGY OF HITLER’S ‘Mein Kampf’](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-ideology-in-adolf-hitlers-mein-kampf/): I had never read Mein Kampf.
- [JEWS AND NAZIS ARE MORE ALIKE THAN YOU THINK](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-shocking-reason-why-jews-and-nazis-are-actually-more-alike-than-you-think/): Every human group, wants the same things: sovereignty, security, cultural continuity, a homeland where its language and traditions aren’t marginal
- [LEFT vs RIGHT: AN EXISTENTIAL CROSSROADS](https://www.drdennisprice.com/left-vs-right-an-existential-crossroads/): The world, in its dizzying complexity, often invites us to seek simplicity.
- [LESSONS FROM 'THE PILL' THAT WE NEVER LEARNED](https://www.drdennisprice.com/lessons-from-the-pill-that-we-never-learned/): My conclusion is that we may have to burn down the joint - that is if we don’t make some critical changes.
- [DEAR JEW, LET'S FIX THIS](https://www.drdennisprice.com/how-to-be-a-peaceful-minority/): (or how to abolish antisemitism) I reference many (historical) minorities, but I am mainly thinking about the Jews.
- [RACISM: A CONVENIENT MYTHOLOGY](https://www.drdennisprice.com/racism-a-convenient-mythology/): The origins of racism are often framed as if racial ideology emerged first and then drove centuries of domination, exploitation, and inequality.
- [WHAT IS A WORLD WITHOUT WHITE MEN?](https://www.drdennisprice.com/what-is-a-world-without-white-men/): Writing about white men is a modern taboo.
- [CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM AND JUDAISM — THE FAULT LINES](https://www.drdennisprice.com/christianity-islam-and-judaism-the-fault-lines/): My usual writing is more assertive.
- [It’s the CULTURE stupid](https://www.drdennisprice.com/its-the-culture-stupid/): Culture is the invisible script that nations recite without rehearsal, the unspoken bylaws dictating how societies stumble, soar, or self-sabotage; just as surely as they govern the boardrooms of businesses and the backrooms of bureaucracies.
- [THE FOLLY OF REPARATIONS CLAIMS](https://www.drdennisprice.com/the-folly-of-reparations-claims/): The modern discourse surrounding historical injustice is often dominated by two persistent and mutually reinforcing phenomena: the entrenchment of a victim mindset within certain identity groups and the corresponding demand for ongoing claims for reparations.
- [JEWS: EXCEPTIONALISM, RESILIENCE, AND THE QUEST FOR EQUITABLE COEXISTENCE](https://www.drdennisprice.com/jews-exceptionalism-resilience-and-the-quest-for-equitable-coexistence/): Imagine it's 167 BCE in ancient Judea, a dusty corner of the Seleucid Empire where a band of rebels called the Maccabees are lighting oil lamps in a desecrated temple.
- [Everything you need to know about the Bondi Massacre in Dec 25](https://www.drdennisprice.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-bondi-massacre-in-dec-25/): It pains me to write this.
- [In the Beginning](https://www.drdennisprice.com/in-the-beginning/): Open the Hebrew Bible and the very first word you encounter is Bereshit (בְּרֵאשִׁית) — “In the beginning.
- [Love thy neighbour, BUT...](https://www.drdennisprice.com/love-thy-neighbour-but/): Uncontrolled and illegal immigration represents a conundrum for Christians.
- [Why the world needs Nick Fuentes](https://www.drdennisprice.com/why-the-world-needs-nick-fuentes/): Lara Logan has unlocked one of the great mysteries of the Left vs Right debate for me.
- [Why do the weak win?](https://www.drdennisprice.com/why-do-the-weak-win/): Why did the US lose in Vietnam?
- [How to be a Proper Grown-Up](https://www.drdennisprice.com/5b837188-109b-4860-9ea7-8a91a1e6f95a/): A CHILD WHO THROWS A TANTRUM IN THE SUPERMARKET, DEMANDING A TREAT, IS CLEARLY NOT A GROWN-UP.
- [How to be a Proper Grown-Up](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2025/07/how-to-be-proper-grown-up/): A CHILD WHO THROWS A TANTRUM IN THE SUPERMARKET, DEMANDING A TREAT, IS CLEARLY NOT A GROWN-UP.
- [What Is Framing?](https://www.drdennisprice.com/etiam-tincidunt-egestas-ex-vitae-luctus-cras-in-inte-pharetra-nibh/): In the spring of 1981, two psychologists at Stanford University presented a group of students with what seemed like a straightforward public health scenario.
- [The Science behind Framing](https://www.drdennisprice.com/etiam-tincidunt-egestas-ex-vitae-luctus-cras-in-inte-pharetra-nibh-b438-yz57/): Dr.
- [Types of Frames](https://www.drdennisprice.com/etiam-tincidunt-egestas-ex-vitae-luctus-cras-in-inte-pharetra-nibh-b438/): The email arrived in Maria Santos's inbox on a Tuesday morning, and at first glance, it seemed like any other piece of corporate communication.
- [Framing and Identity](https://www.drdennisprice.com/lorem-ipsum-dolor-sit-amet-consectetur-adipiscing-elit/): On a cold February morning in 1960, four young Black men walked into the Woolworth's department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and sat down at the whites-only lunch counter.
- [Hey Bruce Springsteen; you hypocrite](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2016/04/hey-bruce-springsteen-you-hypocrite/): Bruce, I love your music man.
- [An Open Letter to the CEO](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2016/04/an-open-letter-to-ceo/): Dear Mr CEO You said your job is to develop a vision and create an organisation with the right values that will make that vision a reality, so I thought I would drop this note in your lap for consideration.
- [Can you handle these 5 uncomfortable truths?](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2016/03/can-you-handle-these-5-uncomfortable/): There is meme floating around social media that goes something like this: Think of how dumb the average guy is.
- [Dear Mark Zuckerberg: How do you lead when you are wrong?](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2016/02/dear-mark-zuckerberg-how-do-you-lead/): Dear Mr Mark Zuckerberg, I your appeal to people not to deface the ‘black lives matter’ logo.
- [Will you be a leader, or will you simply perpetuate the scam?](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2016/02/will-you-be-leader-or-will-you-simply/): (Or, other people’s money.
- [Mitchell Pearce. Cecil John Rhodes. Your Company. Where it all went wrong.](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2016/01/mitchell-pearce-cecil-john-rhodes-your/): People say you should be tolerant.
- [Confusing change with progress](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2016/01/do-you-think-it-is-smart-to-be/): In I encourage people to question their beliefs.
- [Question your beliefs](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2016/01/question-your-beliefs/): Today, if Twitter is anything to go by, then there is a ‘right’ way to think and believe.
- [On racism in Australia a: Open Letter to Stan](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2016/01/on-racism-in-australia-open-letter-to/): Dear Stan, So, you made a speech about racism.
- [Go away](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2008/11/go-away/): Can all the 'experts' (Chris at 2thinknow excepted) pleas just piss off and keep your doom and gloom to yourself.
- [Insight 4129](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2008/08/insight-4129/): The world ceases to exist when you die.
- [Insight 3245](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2008/08/insight-3245/): Everything that happens is inevitable
- [Friends of Happiness](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2008/08/friends-of-happiness/): 1.
- [6 Enemies of Happiness](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2008/08/6-enemies-of-happiness/): 1.
- [Consultant's Friends: 1 & 2](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2008/08/consultants-friends-1-2/): 1.
- [Being diminished](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2008/08/being-diminished/): I can't recall ever having met, or knowing someone who has not been diminished by participating in the being of a Corporation.
- [Not for customers](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2008/08/not-approved-for-use-on-customers/): Not approved for use on customers.
- [Universal Truth #314](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2008/08/universal-trut-314/): Be secure in the knowledge that all humans have insecurity in common.
- [2 Percent chance of success](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2008/07/2-percent-chance-of-success/): Commentators often talk about the ‘2- percenters’ - that is doing those things that are tough, have a low probability of success and yet goes to show an attitude of perseverance and commitment to the small details other people will overlook.
- [Secret to securing World Peace](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2008/07/secret-to-securing-world-peace/): Focus more on the similarities, less on the differences.
- [Two thoughts](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2008/07/two-thoughts/): One: Anything = Nothing, and Anything = Everything.
- [Powerlaws of the Blogosphere](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2008/07/powerlaws-of-blogosphere/): * 90% of Bloggers rehash what the other 10% generate * 80% of Content is produced individuals and 20% by corporations pretending to be individual * 70% of the traffic is made up by 30% of the surfers * 60% of blogs are opinion pieces and 40% is mashed up 'findings' * 50% of Bloggers are trying to monetize and the other 50% are pretending they don't want to * 40% of Bloogers can spell and 60% can't (;-) * 30% of comments are genuine and 70% are designed to direct eyeballs to their own site * 20% of Bloggers know what they are writing about and 80% write about a niche they think they can own * 10% of blog headlines describe the topic and 90% are designed to misdirect traffic to the site
- [USP is Dead](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2008/07/usp-is-dead/): USP = Unique selling Proposition.
- [iPod is dying](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2008/07/ipod-is-dying/): If the internet is ubiquitous and the content is hence 'everywhere'; can someone explain why there is a need for an iPOD to store music?
- [Differentiation](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2008/06/differentiation/): Differentiation isn't all it is cracked up to be.
- [Homogeneity is Mediocrity](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2008/06/homogeneity-is-mediocrity/): Societies that are homogeneous will tend to mediocrity.
- [Twitter is the tipping point](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2008/06/twitter-is-tipping-point/): Twitter is going to to prove to be the tipping point.
- [Google is dying](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2008/06/google-is-dying/): Google is dying.
- [What the heck...](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2008/06/what-heck/): I thought I would shut this down.
- [To be honest](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/12/to-be-honest/): It really grates when people have to qualify what they say with 'to be honest.
- [What the hell is wrong with you people?](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/12/what-hell-is-wrong-with-you-people/): I attended the ‘Presentation Day’ at my son’s primary school today.
- [Manifesto: 91 things I believe](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/11/manifesto-91-things-i-believe/): 1.
- [The downside of upside](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/11/downside-of-upside/): The biggest killer of success is success.
- [The Shape of Life](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/11/shape-of-life/): You must have figured out by now that I an a fan of chaos theory.
- [IT v.s. NOT](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/10/it-vs-not/): What’s not… I read a today that made me think about the difference and the impact of what is and what is not.
- [Two quotes](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/10/two-quotes/): * Mandossian: " The only marketing genius is the customer.
- [Here's a thought](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/08/heres-thought/): If you are befuddled by what Web 2.
- [Cliches are good](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/08/cliches-are-good/): Cliches are usually/ often mocked and derided.
- [Magic becomes Mundane](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/08/magic-becomes-mundane/): Check this out for a few part tricks.
- [Want to be a CEO?](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/08/want-to-be-ceo/): Through my association with the (as an adjunct lecturer on the MBA program) I get access to really cool stuff.
- [Too much of a good thing](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/08/too-much-of-good-thing/): I have been silent for a wee while.
- [Change this](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/07/change-this/): In the spirit of the internet, I thought I'd share with you one of the greatest sources of free, quality writing about almost anything on the net.
- [Why managers fail - Pt 7](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/07/why-managers-fail-pt-7/): Failure to assess your own competence In many ways this related to the prior posting about inability to recognise weaknesses.
- [How to win at Office Politics.](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/07/how-to-win-at-office-politics/): The contrarian's view of winning at office politics.
- [Why managers fail - Pt6](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/07/why-managers-fail-pt6/): This series does not cover the ‘reasons for failure’ in any particular order, but if it did, this particular malady would be very near the top of the list.
- [Why do managers fail – Pt5](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/07/why-do-managers-fail-pt5/): Part 5 in this short series.
- [Why Managers Fail Pt4 - Personal Disclosure](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/07/why-managers-fail-pt4-personal/): I must be honest about the previous post and admit the weakness that I have fallen in love with.
- [Why do managers fail? - Pt 3](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/07/why-do-managers-fail-pt-3/): Weaknesses parading as strengths Managers, myself included, often refuse to acknowledge that our personalities are defective; or at the very least that we have traits and attitudes (that are in essence weaknesses) but that we have become comfortable with and have grown to accept and even like.
- [Why Managers Fail – Pt2](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/07/why-managers-fail-pt2/): Another reason for managerial failure is the total under-estimation of emotion; and its corollary, over-estimating the importance of the rational or intellectual.
- [Why managers fail – Part 1](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/07/why-managers-fail-part-1/): There are a host of reasons.
- [Secret to longevity](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/07/secret-to-longevity/): Read an article by an ex-executive of Shell Corporation.
- [Manage conflict 1-2-3](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/07/manage-conflict-1-2-3/): Managing conflict Had an opportunity to do some coaching today.
- [BMW South Africa. Defining innovation.](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/07/bmw-south-africa-defining-innovation/): Innovation as Brand Value
- [Brand Me](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/06/brand-me/): We are presenting on "Brand Me" up on the Gold Coast next week, and is my wont, I have been doing some research.
- [Innovation vs. Survival](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/06/innovation-vs-survival/): Which is the preferred result?
- [In defense of management jargon](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/06/in-defense-of-management-jargon/): Core competency?
- [Never too old...](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/06/never-too-old/): As part of the research that I am doing on a book that I am writing, I get to interview some really successful entrepreneurs.
- [Change this](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/06/change-this/): This is a first for me- I am just going to promote another website.
- [Retaining Talent](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/06/retaining-talent/): Read an article the other day (somewhere) that the war for talent is hotting up (again?
- [Toxic workplaces](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/06/toxic-workplaces/): I have had cause recently to contemplate what constitutes a toxic workplace – and in particular which factor is the biggest driver of creating such a workplace.
- [Earning a living](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/06/earning-living/): Drove my son to the football training yesterday.
- [Create a New Marketing Theory in 5 Seconds](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/06/create-new-marketing-theory-in-5/): As an entrepreneur/ consultant/ author, you are always interested in finding a new angle to write about.
- [The last word on Marketing](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/06/last-word-on-marketing/): The last word about Marketing I am one of those people you see in the bookshops, browsing through magazines and books.
- [The truth about time management](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/06/truth-about-time-management/): Of all the tings I don’t get in this world, this particular (myth) confounds more than most.
- [The truth about trust](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/06/truth-about-trust/): Too often I am asked about how one goes about building trust or winning someone’s trust.
- [Happy Birthday](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/06/happy-birthday/): Happy Birthday to Moonyeen.
- [The Deception of Detail](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/05/deception-of-detail/): People usually take pride in saying that they are ‘not good with the detail’ but they really ‘get the big picture’.
- [Cycle of Success](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/05/cycle-of-success/): Belief generates attitude.
- [Success attitudes: chicken and egg](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/05/success-attitudes-chicken-and-egg/): There are so many books, blogs, speakers and gurus that emphasise a few ‘mantras, millions of titles, the same old story: * Believe in yourself * Follow your hear and your passion and success will follow (i.
- [Myth: Believe in yourself](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/05/myth-believe-in-yourself_22/): It would be disingenuous of me to state that I am (want to) debunk this as a myth, because I am not going to completely go the opposite way and say that you should NOT believe in yourself.
- [Myth: Believe in yourself](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/05/myth-believe-in-yourself/): It would be disingenuous of me to state that I am (want to) debunk this as a myth, because I am not going to completely go the opposite way and say that you should NOT believe in yourself.
- [De-bunking the Secret](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/05/de-bunking-secret_20/): The Secret continues to gain traction.
- [De-bunking the Secret](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/05/de-bunking-secret/): The Secret continues to gain traction.
- [Meet the Queen](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/05/meet-queen/): If you did not live in Australia, you would probably not realise but the Queens of England is still the titular Head of State of Australia.
- [People and dogs](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/05/people-and-dogs/): When my wife and I tale the morning walk, we are invariably accompanied by Georgie, our little pavement-special of a dog.
- [The obstacles to success](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/05/obstacles-to-success/): There are many obstacles to achieving success.
- [Patterns of Life](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/04/patterns-of-life/): I remember when I first noticed the existence of patterns.
- [The purpose of business](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/04/purpose-of-business/): "The purpose of a company is to create a customer.
- [Four sources for all solutions](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/04/four-sources-for-all-solutions/): In order of importance, these are the four ideas or constructs that I have discovered over time, and that I consider indispensable.
- [Knowing when to quit](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/04/knowing-when-to-quit/): I promised upfront not to blog unless there was something to say - so I had a quiet week.
- [Under pressure](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/04/under-pressure/): For reasons that are best left unexplained, I was watching The Biggest Loser on TV ( reality show about weight loss) tonight.
- [The ugliness of truth - pt 2](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/04/ugliness-of-truth-pt-2/): I should just clarify: I do not believe that lying is the way to go.
- [The ugliness of truth](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/04/ugliness-of-truth/): I have been an ardent follower of the dogma of truth.
- [God's answer](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/04/gods-answer/): A rhetorical question today: Do you also wonder (sometimes) if we are truly able to make our own life (successes and failures) or whether it has been pre-determined by God?
- [A most peculiar thing…](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/04/most-peculiar-thing/): I am referring to the mind --- and how it works.
- [Who are you?](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/04/who-are-you/): Margaret Wheatley asked this question: Who are you?
- [The game of Life](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/04/game-of-life/): As most people do, I wonder about God, the Universe, Religion, Life after Death and little old me.
- [Running scared](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/04/running-scared/): I read an article on the net that has me (mentally) running for the hills.
- [Fame and other nasty things](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/04/fame-and-other-nasty-things/): I run a ‘words of wisdom ticker’ on – and one of my favourites is: Fame is the cancer of personality.
- [Eternal happiness](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/04/eternal-happiness/): In this little piece I can guarantee you complete happiness for long as you live.
- [If not confidence, what is it then?](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/03/if-not-confidence-what-is-it-then/): Confidence almost invariably leads complacency to over-confidence which leads to’ arseholeness’.
- [Confidence causes failure](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/03/confidence-causes-failure/): Is confidence really all it is cracked up to be?
- [Insights to PMA - Pt2](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/03/insights-to-pma-pt2/): Festinger sums it up as follows: “According to cognitive dissonance theory, there is a tendency for individuals to seek consistency among their cognitions (i.
- [Insights into positive mental attitude PMA – part 1](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/03/insights-into-positive-mental-attitude/): Having bagged the notion of PMA in generalised way, I probably should be a bit more specific about my gripes.
- [Mentoring pt 2](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/03/mentoring-pt-2/): Mentees probably join a mentoring program for an array of reasons, and some of which are likely to doom the relationship.
- [State Election 07](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/03/state-election-07/): Tomorrow is my first time voting as a citizen of Australia.
- [Mentoring: the good, the bad, the ugly](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/03/mentoring-good-bad-ugly/): I started on the journey of joining a local initiative to act as a mentor.
- [Perspective on Pain](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/03/perspective-on-pain/): Having grown up and lived in South Africa we are/were , possibly more than other nations, exposed to pain and suffering.
- [Network: Is it still bullshit if there is a tacit understanding…?](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/03/network-is-it-still-bullshit-if-there/): Attended a session today on networking skills.
- [Success- that elusive thing](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/03/success-that-elusive-thing/): Success – that elusive thing A new (ish) book out now by Carol Dweck (Mindset: The New Psychology of Success) has now postulated a new theory about success.
- [Busting the myth about being time poor](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/03/busting-myth-about-being-time-poor/): This will be a real short one.
- [The truth merchant](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/03/truth-merchant/): Blogging is as hard as I thought: When it is time to pack up and go to bed.
- [Bullshit Goals](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/03/bullshit-goals/): Read today.
- [Will history look kindly on George W Bush?](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/03/will-history-look-kindly-on-george-w/): I am no apologist for George W Bush.
- [Start here](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/03/start-here/): Many people I know promise themselves that.
- [Winners of the world](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/03/winners-of-world/): Evolution dictates that one 'species' eventually emerges as the 'winner': the one that adapted the best I suppose.
- [Better late than never](https://www.drdennisprice.com/2007/03/better-late-than-never/): I promised myself that I will only start blogging when I have something relevant to say.

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