9 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American organizational psychologist — Harvard Business School — creator of the psychological safety concept — who discovered that the highest-performing hospital teams made more errors (because they reported them) and built the psychological safety research program from that finding.
American professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business who wrote Made to Stick, Switch, Decisive, and The Power of Moments with his brother Dan Heath — translating academic research on cognition, decision-making, and persuasion into practical frameworks for business.
American author and co-founder of Thinkwell (educational publisher) who co-wrote Made to Stick, Switch, Decisive, and The Power of Moments with his brother Chip Heath — also wrote Upstream (2020) alone, about solving problems at their source rather than reacting downstream.
Harvard Business School professor who studies organizational behavior — known for his research on transparency paradoxes in organizations — demonstrating that increasing monitoring and visibility of employees often decreases their productivity.
Stanford Graduate School of Business professor and the most rigorous academic analyst of organizational power — his books Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't and The Human Equation are foundational texts for understanding how power actually works in organizations.
Charles Duhigg's concept that certain habits act as keystones — triggering cascading positive changes in other areas of life — because they produce small wins that create new structures and culture.
American social psychologist at Columbia Business School whose Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together examines how tribal psychology shapes behavior and how understanding cultural instincts can build cross-group cooperation.
Research center founded by Kurt Lewin at MIT in 1945, later relocated to the University of Michigan, that institutionalized the experimental study of group behavior, social influence, and organizational change.
American leadership author and consultant whose The Female Advantage and How Women Rise have been influential in the discourse on women's leadership styles and career development.