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Money & Business
MSE’s Academy of Money
...working person, you shouldn’t spend more than you, yeah, earn. But when it comes to doing a budget, many people approach it the wrong way. Two big tips to start. First of all, don’t just look at one month’s finances. That will cause a lot of mistakes. We don’t spend by the month. Sometimes we spend by the week, sometimes the month, sometimes the year. We might buy...
Health, Sports & Psychology
Living psychology: animal minds
...work with animals every day. And you have happy animals, you have sad animals. It’s quite obvious that they do feel emotions. It’s just difficult sometimes to interpret the language that they’re showing you as those emotions. We look at emotions in terms of welfare. And we’re certainly looking in terms of whether animals are sad and in pain. And we have recognised...
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Can I take a feed of OpenLearn content?
...works best for you, add it to your favourite feed reader, and never miss a new piece of content again. If you want one with everything... Try our all content feed which you can find here. If you want a feed of free OpenLearn courses... Select the RSS course feed option. If you want articles and interactive learning content... Choose the 'Explore' RSS feed. If you want the...
Education & Development
Motivation and goal setting - Academic Study Skills
...working towards a degree or developing a career path. Setting interim goals to get you through the long journey of a three-year degree can help keep you motivated when you’re finding things difficult. By working through this tutorial, you should be able to: Discover what is going to motivate you from now on Understand how to set goals and the benefits of doing so Open...
Money & Business
Management in Chinese cultures
...are less hierarchical and therefore have better agility to compete in global market. Confucian values How Chinese cultures emphasize group benefits and working towards a common goal. Organisational creativity The differences between Asian and Western workers when finding routes into creativity. Learning from each other Conclusions about the Chinese way of working....
Money & Business
Making creativity and innovation happen
...social context. In the 1990s, organisations paid more attention to the effect that work culture and environment have on the potential for creativity on people in organisations. In the current millennium the focus has shifted towards understanding creativity as an emergent phenomenon that builds on what has gone before and arises from ongoing interactions, a perspective...
History & The Arts
Jorge Luis Borges: A short reading list
...works by and about the man have certainly expanded that library...[Jorge Luis Borges] Jorge Luis Borges in 1951 Borges also had his own library - The Library of Babel - which he created as a project for an Argentine publisher: Although he disliked the bureaucratic boredom of library work, Borges was better suited than perhaps anyone for a curatorial role. Given this...