Surveillance Tech Robotizes Employees, Eroding Trust and Well-Being
In some Chinese elementary schools, students wear attention-monitoring headbands that tell teachers, by lighting up in different colors, how focused students are. A classroom robot also assesses their health and participation. Parents keep tabs on...
6 Ways to Rationally Deal with Your Rotten Boss
“He literally pitched my idea to the client as if it was his…right in front of me! I’d helped him build the presentation for weeks prior to delivering it to the client. He’s so worried...
An Organizational Scholar Explains How to Learn from COVID-19
As of today, the United States has the highest number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the world. With this level of human life destroyed, our society looks for not only solutions but lessons for...
Sometimes It’s Best to Fight Bias with Bias
When Christina Fang was a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, in the Wharton School of Business, she took a course on behavioral decision making and it blew her away. It fascinated her that...
Conspiracy Thinking in the Workplace Isn’t Harmless Gossip
There was a moment, in our recent Breaking the Fever podcast episode, when I felt compelled to pause the recording. I wanted to linger on what our guest, Robert Brotherton, an expert on the psychology...
How CEOs Should Think About Rebuilding America
The only thing more complicated than building a world class economy from the ground up is rebuilding one after disaster strikes. Companies face immense challenges in restoring operations following a global economic shutdown that shredded...
The Case Against Entrepreneurship As We Know It
Entrepreneurship is typically regarded as an individualistic activity that takes place in a free-market economy, usually in the context of for-profit businesses. This is an evolutionary worldview, although it is not always stated as such....
How to Avoid Fueling Affective Polarization
Another contentious election year is upon us, and the political machines fueling mutual contempt across the aisle are heating up. On top of our political divide, the past weeks have shown us the ugliness of...
Straight Talk About the Business Ethics of Workplace Surveillance
On the potentially toxic combination of management culture and modern surveillance.
Culture Explains Our Weak Response to the Coronavirus
The sneakiness of the novel coronavirus has wreaked havoc worldwide.