PG
Paul Gibbons
54quotes
Quotes by Paul Gibbons
Paul Gibbons's insights on:

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


"
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.

"
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.

"
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.

"
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.
Showing 1 to 10 of 54 results