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