by david allan van nostrand | Jan 31, 2022 | Human Behavior, Teaching, Using Information
Some time in this century, a few of the world’s leading MBA programs realized students were being taught plenty about business but nothing about human behavior. They knew a growing body of evidence was showing clear linkages between management practices based in the...
by david allan van nostrand | Jan 24, 2022 | Case Study, Human Behavior, Organizational Behavior
Imagine yourself in charge of a halfway house for felons just released from state and federal prisons. Your agency’s mission is to provide counseling and support services that will help these criminals find – and keep – jobs, adjust to life outside the...
by david allan van nostrand | Jan 17, 2022 | Human Behavior, Items in the News, Organizational Behavior, Unintended Consequences
Florida is one the busiest vacation destination states in the USA. Most come for the ocean, beaches and warm, sunny days. Many of the more than 130 million tourists who come to Florida are golfers. Combine these numbers with the many year-round residents who golf and...
by david allan van nostrand | Jan 10, 2022 | Items in the News, Point of view
John Montgomery had a barn, stables and blacksmith shop in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881. He named his outdoor horse pen the O.K. Corral*, never knowing it would become the historical site where Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers shot it out with Ike and Billy Clanton...
by david allan van nostrand | Jan 3, 2022 | Items in the News
January 7 is National Bobblehead Day. Early versions were called wobblers, bobblers, nodders, and head-shakers and had a head connected to a body by a spring so it would bounce around. The most popular were cats. In 1842 Russian author Nikolai Gogol described a main...