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Successful Businesses & organizations are those that value, place premium & invest in their workers. They understand that it is their workers that will ultimately determine the profit or loss of their business and that if they spend the time to know and take care of their workers they would not have to loose much money doing damage control. When managers have confidence in their workers, its because they have given their employees the tools to succeed in their roles & provide a level of ownership, independence and flexibility and space to succeed. The workers sense this commitment and investment and then share in the company’s visions and purpose and therefore work with more intensity as if it’s their own. Companies such as Amazon and #Shlepper are growing in leaps and bounds. Job satisfaction among its employees is growing faster than the national average since they have given more independence investment and pay to their workers. Businesses should Stop nickel and diming t

  What has been Jamaica’s Experience of Neoliberal Restructuring/Globalization? “Life and Debt”?   One of man’s basic drives and instinct is the pursuit and discovery of “truth”. But in a world of Isms and schisms, perceptions and deceptions, truth seems more elusive and reality becomes contradictions of our perceptions controlled by our ideologies, products of human limitations. Nevertheless, throughout history, man has searched for truth and according to Cuandis Callison film, art and media has reflected this “eternal search for truth” (November 14, 2000, p.1).  It is no wonder, that Professor Bob Nowlan, of the University of Wisconsin would assert, as he did, that documentary is one of the major achievements of cinema and film. Implicit in this assertion, is the argument posited by film scholars such as Vertov, John Rouch, Richard leacock and Fred wiseman, that films seeks for truth or a realism that is never before achieved or represented in films, hence the term “cinema verite” or

My upcoming book is divided into two  parts. Part A will examine whether or not Jamaica’s inequality trends from 1980 – up to the beginning of the 21st century was a consequence of the structural adjustment policies stipulated by the neo-liberal technocrats of the ‘Washington Consensus’ on Jamaica. We will attempt to do so by tracing the impact of “structural adjustment” on Jamaica’s economy and the relationship to this on income inequality and poverty in Jamaica. We will argue that given the premise, Jamaica presents a unique cause and effect scenario, which continues to question the veracity and validity of the premise that neoliberalism is the “sine qua non” of development.  Part B of the Book will argue, given Jamaica’s experience with neoliberal restructuring. that Jamaica like many former colonies are far from independent. The fact is that decolonization and “neoliberal globalization”  has deepened Jamaica’s dependence on the new global elite of the “Washington consensus”. We wil

 Dirty Pretty Things: Exposition of the  Underground Economy: “Dirty Pretty Things” and the visual realism of invisibility as tool of exploitation in Neo-Liberal Globalization A. Preface Stephen Frears, "Dirty Pretty Things" is a well-designed film with an oblique edge of social and sexual commentary, an uninviting tale of realism and anxiety which toy with our emotions. It fruitfully explores a diverse London, the imperial capital invaded and transformed by its former subjects who are usually portrayed as aliens with three heads and big sharp teeth seeking to destroy human society. But Frears challenge this narrative with an imagery that suggests that it is Westerners who are the real monsters who prey on the bodies of the invisible immigrants who are visibly trying to navigate the treacherous underground terrains of London in “dirty pretty things”      1.  INTRODUCTION Globalization has created tremendous opportunities for many; but it has adversely affected the liv