Humans are not Frogs!

With every sign of intelligence we bestow upon the human race, to continue to adhere to a personal culture or lifestyle that denies inspiration, aspiration, motivation and the desire to understand the building blocks of human nature is conducive to the metaphor of the 'boiling frog'.  " If a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death", a metaphor for the inability of people to react to significant changes that occur gradually. All be it the frog might like being in the pot, but surely humans don't. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog


The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) research program 2010 report gives an insight to the current and future business activity across Scotland.
http://www.strath.ac.uk/huntercentre/research/gem/
http://www.strath.ac.uk/media/departments/huntercentre/research/gem/GEM_Scotland_2010_Combined.pdf

Well if necessity is the mother of all inventions, then theres hope in education and the 'Glow Futures' online project.

http://glowfutur.es/2011/04/

Planning your future? - Emergency Budget Update

Read:

 Outlook for Scottish Government Expenditure 

June 2010 Emergency Budget Update 

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/918/0101175.pdf

Trust Your Staff Online?

“Staff will not be competent in all aspects of security” 
(Forrester Research, Inc, 2008 - Identity Managed Markets Online)


Read:  Staff Fraudscape: Depicting the UK's staff fraud landscape
http://www.cifas.org.uk/research_and_reports

The Basis of Cultural Identity

Creating emotional trust and managing existing levels of trust and perceptions online, has effectively demonstrated that the cultural engagement trends existing within the online environment is a key contributor to the global economy.

The following equation theoretically demonstrate:

·   1. Creating interpersonal cultural identity stems from both emotional trust across multiple engagers and the benefits gained from online identity solution.

·   2. How managing emotional trust thresholds online has value in the formation of individual identity and interpersonal perceptions.

If: Cultural Emotion = Identity

Then: Emotional Trust + Online Identity Solution = Interpersonal Cultural Identity

The Identity of a culture: 

1. Depends on the focus and direction of a countries objectives, for example: Renewable Energy.

2. How individuals feel about conducting their day to day lives, which is increasingly through online engagement.

Trust as a Creative Concept

Tan and Thoen (2001) discuss trust as a tool of control, having the ability to ‘create’, they refer to it in its literal sense as “being the birth of something new, to cause to come into existence” (Thoen, 2001). What is recognised is the creative ability of trust as a means of facilitating change, devising a new scenario or assembling what exists and fashioning it differently to produce a new outcome. The exploration of trust as a creative concept in literature has further been defined as: “The starting point of creativity is the generation of new ideas” (Gurteen, 1998).  In effect to recognise something that is requiring being new, needs the acknowledgment of what was, is no longer required, good or could be done differently. Brenning (1992) defined that creativity in humans use the same procedure as evolution by natural selection “The memory produces the best solution to date, the random function generator adds something to it and the filter tests the new solution takes the place of the old one in the memory, and the cycle starts again” (Brenning 1992).

What I am substantiating is that emotional trust can generate a change in mind-sets, as it facilitates the willing ability to endorse whole-heartedly something different. This is the foundation and basis of what produces change and ultimately evolution in areas such as cultural identity, trends, lifestyle, practices and outlook. 

Cultural and Trust Dynamics Online

“Culture is probably the most important factor that determines whether a relationship is going to succeed” (Forrester, 2010, p. 16). In my view culture can be a pseudonym for emotion interchange, as it conveys, represents the embodiment of a cohort. Across the Internet this would be recognised as facilitating emotional interplay across multiple engagers. 

The following equations demonstrates the importance of emotion in managing culture:  

Emotion = Culture = Cohort = Identity 

What is being described is the qualification of what constitutes an identity, is that of an emotion. 

Creating emotional trust and managing existing levels of trust and perceptions, is identifying that the cultural engagement trends existing within the online environment as a key contributor to the global economy.

The following equation theoretically demonstrate:

·      Creating interpersonal cultural identity stems from both emotional trust across multiple engagers and the benefits gained from online identity solution.

·      How managing emotional trust thresholds online has value in the formation of individual identity and interpersonal perceptions.

If: Emotion = Identity

Then: Emotional Trust + Online Identity Solution = Interpersonal Cultural Identity

What is debatable at this point is whether in practice, the Internet through an Identity security solutions, can effectively create emotional trust and cultural identity.

Risk and its Association with Trust

An assumption has been introduced into business culture which is one where the action to trust has been described as “an engagement to take risk to accept a level of doubt and have confidence, leaving oneself vulnerable to the actions of those one trusts” (Hosmer L. T., 1995, p. 379). 

It has been further been defined as:

“Trust = Expectancy + Belief in expectancy +Willingness to be vulnerable for that belief” (Fox, 2006).  

Risk in this context has been described to be an acceptable entity in the equation to trust. However the continuous engagement to take risk and to trust would vary in relations to the experience and subsequent outcomes. There fore the means in militating against further risks is a means to sustain the engagement to trust.