On organizational behavior, behavioral economics, HR strategy, and the structural causes of organizational self-deception.
The wave of technology sector layoffs that began in late 2022 and continued through 2024 and into 2025 was remarkable not only for its scale but for the quality of…
The Boeing 737 MAX crisis, which began with two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 and whose organizational and legal consequences extended through 2024, offers one of the most thoroughly…
Research on leadership selection consistently finds that charisma, defined loosely as the capacity to project confidence, warmth, and vision in social interactions, is among the strongest predictors of advancement in…
The concept of quiet quitting entered mainstream organizational discourse in mid-2022 and remained a subject of sustained management commentary through 2024. The framing, that employees were psychologically withdrawing from their…
When an employee raises a concern that proves, in retrospect, to have been accurate, organizations reliably engage in a particular retrospective reconstruction. The employee, they will say, was difficult. Prone…
Laurence Peter published his principle in 1969. Fifty-three years later, the research literature continues to confirm it. Employees are routinely promoted to positions that require skills they do not have,…
The return-to-office mandates that proliferated through 2022 and into 2023 were almost universally justified on the grounds of productivity, collaboration, and culture. Almost universally, the evidence cited in support of…
In January 2021, as the full scope of the GameStop short squeeze became public, most commentary focused on the mechanics of the trade and the behavior of retail investors. Less…
The forced transition to remote work in 2020 exposed a management failure that had been hiding in plain sight for decades: the widespread substitution of physical presence for actual performance…
When organizations face existential pressure, they do not become different. They become more fully what they already were. The COVID-19 pandemic, arriving in March 2020 with the force of a…