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 | Aug 10, 2020 | How to tell good research from bad, Items in the News, Surveys
When people do the same sort of thing while away from work as they do while at work, they are said to have taken a busman’s holiday. In London in the 1800s, horse-drawn “carriages for everyone” were called omni-buses. The driver and the conductor were called busmen....
by david allan van nostrand | Aug 3, 2020 | Items in the News, Organizational Behavior, Surveys, Using Information
Peter Cappelli, professor of Management and director of the Center for Human Resources at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, wrote an article in today’s Wall Street Journal that is essential reading for everyone whose organization administers annual...
by david allan van nostrand | Jul 27, 2020 | Items in the News
Every week I read thousands of stories, articles, and news releases. From the practical to the curious, from the ironic to the absurd, here are 9 items that caught my eye. The headlines are mine. As if the real ones aren’t bad enough. Taiwan’s Songshan Airport...
by david allan van nostrand | Jun 29, 2020 | Items in the News
“Lead, follow, or get out of the way.” Media mogul Ted Turner said it, and so did General George S. Patton, but they weren’t the first. That was Thomas Paine, the revolutionary whose 1776 pamphlet, Common Sense, called for American independence from...
by david allan van nostrand | May 11, 2020 | Human Behavior, Items in the News
When I was a rookie bartender working my way through college, I found a grizzled veteran who agreed to teach me how a master craftsman does it. One day I asked him the name of the guy seated down at the end of the bar. “Amigo,” he said. “No, no, what’s his...
