54 Quotes by Paul Gibbons

Behaviorism was a busted flush, but neo-behaviorist theories, especially choice architecture, achieve behavioral change without coercion or the downsides of carrots and sticks.

Malcolm Gladwell puts the "pop" in pop psychology, and although revered in lay circles, is roundly dismissed by experts - even by the researchers he makes famous.

Pop leadership abuts pop psychology, and is very destructive. In no other serious domain of human endeavor (surgery, playing the violin) is the subject distilled down to nice-sounding aphorisms that mean nothing.

Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.

Just stamping out anti-science and bad science will eliminate an enormous amount of business waste

Humanity can not afford to have 21st Century businesses run on 20th Century science, and (worse) pseudoscience.

Business people need to understand the psychology of risk more than the mathematics of risk.

Leadership must evolve into a “science-based craft”, like surgery.

There was nothing scientific about Scientific Management (Taylorism), and neither was it good management.