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Day: June 13, 2015

Should the Marikana massacre have killed the positive thinking industry?

Posted on 13 June, 2015 by preorg

In August 2012 South African police shot dead 34 mine workers at Marikana in a massacre that horrified the world. As the post-mortems rolled in there was plenty of blame to go around for the mining company Lonmin, union leaders, and politicians. No blame however was attributed to the positive thinking industry. That is not…

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