by david allan van nostrand | Dec 27, 2021 | Items in the News, Point of view
The best way to learn something is to teach it. You have to take what you know (and what you think you know) and put it down in writing. You have to organize it in a way that it makes sense to others. Psychologists and psychiatrists have their own version of having...
by david allan van nostrand | Dec 20, 2021 | Human Behavior, Organizational Behavior
100 years ago was the age of industrialization in the USA. Manufacturing jobs employed many millions of people to make cars, furniture, radios, airplanes, tires, telephones and appliances. These things had long been made by hand, but were now made in mechanized...
by david allan van nostrand | Dec 13, 2021 | Items in the News, Unintended Consequences
One cold night in the desert an Arab was warm inside his one man tent, asleep. His camel gently poked his nose in and said it was so cold outside, perhaps his owner would let him get just his nose warm. Groggy and not seeing the harm in that, the Arab said okay...
by david allan van nostrand | Dec 7, 2021 | Assumptions, Gatekeepers, Misinformation traps
Research should be providing the fact base that points companies in the direction of likely success. Instead, it stands at the corner of walk and don’t walk, selling maps to the stars’ homes. Business research today churns out mountains of misinformation that send...
