“We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” Joan Didion famously wrote in “The White Album.” In many ways, Didion was right: Stories may not seem like a basic survival need, but our brains naturally tell stories as a way to give structure and meaning to our lives....
For some of Denise Shull’s clients, being in a slump might mean losing millions of dollars of other people’s money. Shull is the founder of the ReThink Group, a performance coaching group that specializes in clients on Wall Street. She’s also one of...
Plain and simple, these people say, Wall Street is too greedy. To me, though, that analysis rings false. It’s hollow, and far too simplistic. If we live in a world where scientists have learned to split the atom, medical researchers are designing drugs that alter our...
Do you know someone who has “risen without trace” — who is successful, yet you can’t work out why? When I was a callow consultant, my first project was for an Irish conglomerate that had a supermarket chain. The manager running it was something of a figure of fun,...
One of the surprise bestsellers of 1956 – frequently reprinted throughout the 1960s – was an epoch-defining book by William H. Whyte called simply The Organization Man. Those were the blessed days when books didn’t have to have subtitles to tell you what they were...
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