How Leaders’ Personal Attributes and Leadership Style May Affect Followers’ Resistance to Change

Does your organization go through change? I’d be willing to bet that it does, so you may be interested in what kind of impact leaders have on their followers’ intentions to resist organizational change. The authors of this study investigated how the traits, values, and behaviors of leaders explain their followers’ resistance intentions.

The participants [...]

The Danger of Storytelling

Like all of us, economist Tyler Cowen loves a good story. But in this intriguing TED talk, he asks us to step away from thinking of our lives — and our messy, complicated irrational world — in terms of a simple narrative.

“I was told to come here and tell you all stories, but what [...]

Correlation Is Not Causation (Part II)

Repeat after me: correlation is not causation, correlation is not causation, correlation is not causation …

At times during my statistics studies I felt like Jack Nicholson in the film The Shining, in which we witness his descent into madness as he types the same sentence over and over again, “All work and no play [...]