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Paul Gibbons
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Quotes by Paul Gibbons
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There was nothing scientific about Scientific Management (Taylorism), and neither was it good management.
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Business people need to understand the psychology of risk more than the mathematics of risk.
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Humanity can not afford to have 21st Century businesses run on 20th Century science, and (worse) pseudoscience.
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Just stamping out anti-science and bad science will eliminate an enormous amount of business waste
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Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.
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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.
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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.
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Behaviorism was a busted flush, but neo-behaviorist theories, especially choice architecture, achieve behavioral change without coercion or the downsides of carrots and sticks.
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The change "grief cycle", for some people, may be excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, effort, and excellence.
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