The Pygmalion effect is the finding by social psychologist Robert Rosenthal “that what one person expects of another can come to serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy.” Rosenthal and his coauthor Lenore Jacobson coined the term to describe the striking results of an...
I make the case that you don’t have to go to business school to learn practical business skills and do well in the working world. In fact, skipping the MBA may actually help you be more successful in the long run. That’s a position that makes many people...
How you arrange the plot points of your life into a narrative can shape who you are—and is a fundamental part of being human. In telling the story of how you became who you are, and of who you’re on your way to becoming, the story itself becomes a part of who...
The list of successful businesspeople without MBAs is long, and cited often enough to be a cliché. Folks like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Sam Walton, and Anita Roddick don’t have MBAs, and have done quite well for themselves as CEOs of large companies....
How do you tell the story of your life? Turns out a big part of your personality are the snapshots of experiences you assemble and re-assemble of your past and future. Of course, that means that you can curate and shape those things, refine them based on what works...
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