Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

I first encountered Frankl and his work in graduate school while learning how to counsel others for change, and I have been a fan ever since. Frankl hit on this theme long before Philip Zimbardo divided his test subjects into guards and prisoners and discovered how easily we fall into our roles. Kushner , runs only to 165 pages.

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Self-aware Zimbardo Learning-by-Doing Short-term 150

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

When I met for lunch with Dr. Phil Zimbardo , the former president of the American Psychological Association, I knew him primarily as the mastermind behind The Stanford Prison Experiment. In just days, the prisoners demonstrated symptoms of depression and extreme stress and the guards had become sadistic. The lesson?

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Zimbardo Herzberg Bureaucracy Deming 20

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Ongoing organizational learning is essential — but does that justify treating selected customers and clients as virtual lab rats or guinea pigs? Everyone online can—if they want to make the effort—become an amateur Asch , Skinner , Zimbardo , Pavlov , Ariely , Kahneman and/or Vernon Smith.

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Ethics Zimbardo Explicit Knowledge Kahneman 8