When 80% of Information is NOT in Big Data and Spread Sheets… You Need to Become a Leadership Anthropologist

摘要

Decades ago when I took my first “OB” course, I called my parents and told them I was shifting from studying law to studying “OB.” They thought I would become a doctor (obstetrics). However, when I clarified that OB was an acronym for organizational behavior, they asked, “What is that?” While I could not fully explain to them what OB meant for a career, I was enraptured. I started to observe and analyze places I worked, restaurants where we ate, stores where we shopped, athletic teams I followed, church where I worshipped, and so forth. Because of my obsession with organizations, my psychologist wife told me I had a new disease, Organization Compulsive Disorder (OCD).