by david allan van nostrand | Jan 11, 2021 | Misinformation traps, Organizational Behavior, Shoot the messenger
More than 2,000 years ago in Greece, a playwright named Sophocles wrote about strong-willed, highly principled characters who encountered seemingly insurmountable ethical problems. Sophocles’ interest was in individuals who would not compromise their principles,...
by david allan van nostrand | Jan 4, 2021 | Items in the News, Shoot the messenger
Eleven years after Charles Lindbergh was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, Douglas Corrigan took off from New York in his plane and headed for California. He landed in Ireland, claiming he lost his direction in the clouds and his compass had...
by david allan van nostrand | Mar 30, 2020 | Shoot the messenger, The Myopia of Experts
One of the joys that came my way from serving many years in the research trenches around the world was having a front row seat to history. In hundreds of investigations of all sizes and shapes, I got to see up close how decisions got made and how things evolved over...
