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The Birth of a Myth: Niceness Does Not Pay?
I caused a change on a major news site this week. Too bad the change only made the post slightly more accurate. The story about this news story illustrates one way business myths are born.Browsing...
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The Sorry State of Surveys
Do you think business news stories based on surveys are useful? Please answer "Yes" or "No.""But," you may object, "what if I think, 'It depends?'" Ah-HA! When then, indeed?I received this week a...
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On Surveys, Bias, and Admitting You're Wrong
Daniel Klein is an economics professor at George Mason Univ. and a self-described libertarian. Though some of his libertarian beliefs would be considered "liberal"—ending of all narcotics laws, for...
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Don't be an Example of the Peter Principle
A recent article about America’s generals shows that Laurence Peter nailed a universal truth back in 1969: “In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” What some call...
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For Whistleblowers, Team Ethics Outweigh the Leader’s
I have a confession to make. Once in grad school I cheated on a test. But in my defense, I didn’t realize it at the time, because everyone else in the class was doing the same thing. More about that...
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“Brain Porn” Hides Real Leadership Lessons from Neuroscience
You can’t read about human behavior these days without seeing the word “neuroscience.” Many writers use it as shorthand for “how the brain works,” though it is actually the study of the entire nervous...
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