by david allan van nostrand | Sep 28, 2020 | Leadership, Strategy
Spike Lee’s film Do The Right Thing was a cautionary tale (one that warns of the consequences of actions and inactions). It did not provide “answers” to the issues it exposed. Instead, the film reflected back to its audience their own perspectives on prejudice and...
by david allan van nostrand | Sep 21, 2020 | Human Behavior, Teaching, Using Information
When I created a special course for MBAs, I began by giving my students a whirlwind tour of humans since Alley Oop*, following the arc of human history in Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. Then I introduced them to many strange people they...
by david allan van nostrand | Sep 14, 2020 | How to tell good research from bad, Items in the News, The Myopia of Experts, Using Information
Andy Devine was a college football player who moonlighted as a professional footballer, using an alias (Jeremiah Schwartz) in order to maintain his amateur status. His father operated a hotel and his mother was the granddaughter of the first Navy officer killed in the...
by david allan van nostrand | Sep 7, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Organizational Behavior, Using Information
Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s aunt Edith Bouvier lived in a 28-room house with 300 cats. The home was so cluttered that 26 of the rooms were uninhabitable, leaving Big Edie and her daughter Little Edie to live in only one bedroom. When sanitation workers...
