The Seahawks’ Psychologist Explains How Leaders Can Unlock Team Potential
With football season officially underway, even without full stadiums, sports fans are cheering in relief that at least COVID-19, for all the havoc it’s wreaked, didn’t take this away. As we make the transition from...
The N.B.A. and Why Deep Listening, Authentic Introspection, and Transformative Empowerment Matter
When the N.B.A. and its players’ union recently agreed on a simple, yet effective set of actions to advance social justice and racial equality in America, they showed that, in the face of deeply painful...
The Gray Rhino Trump Ignored and Still Tries to Hide
Perhaps nothing more perfectly encapsulates Michele Wucker’s idea of a “gray rhino”—an obvious threat, a crisis we see coming—than the COVID-19 pandemic. And perhaps no one more perfectly represents the onlooker—who doesn’t get out of...
Are Jerks More Likely to Have Workplace Power?
I admit it. In the last several years or so, I have bandied about the statistic that a fifth of CEOs are psychopaths. It seems to be conventional wisdom, or at least a predominant presumption,...
Conflicts of Interest in a Post-Trump Era
In a classic Watergate-era Doonesbury, Mark asks a rhetorical question. Is it fair to judge the ethicality of the White House based solely on the various cases and allegations that had surfaced during that scandal?...
The Popular, Bad Arguments Against Stakeholder Capitalism
The gentlemen do protest too much, we think—with apologies to William Shakespeare for abusing his fine words in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Lucian Bebchuk and Roberto Tallarita, both at Harvard, have joined fellow princes in...
Bob Frank’s Legacy as a Teacher, Behavioral Economist, Economic Naturalist, and Author
In 1966, when Robert H. Frank arrived in Nepal to teach high-school math and science as a Peace Corps volunteer, he was surprised at how quickly he felt comfortable in his modest new home, even though...
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...