Probably the greatest challenge that scholars face in organizational behavior is getting access to information about what people do when they’re at work. Without it, they have nothing to analyze, evaluate, talk about, or publish. And if they can’t publish, then they’ll perish, because as far as universities are concerned they’ll have little, if anything, […]
Twenty years ago, Pearn Kandola – an Oxford-based business psychology firm – conducted a study in which they looked at the claims that companies made about the kind of people that they wanted to recruit. One thing they discovered was that managers tended to weed out the people who exhibited the very characteristics they said […]
Marketing guru and best-selling author Seth Godin recently published a blog post about the warning signs of defending the status quo. When confronted with new ideas, these “defenders” are adept at emphasizing the negative aspects of change and highlighting the positive aspects of the current state. For example they: Highlight the pain to a few […]
Jesse Jacoby
