Foundational Ideas
Curated summaries of influential books in behavioral science, psychology, behavioral economics, and organizational research. Each piece distills core principles and translates them into practical insight for HR practitioners seeking to design fairer, more defensible people decisions.
Decision Scenarios
Explore specific operational decision challenges, diagnostic indicators, and governance rules.
The Science of Motivation
A behavioral science-grounded explanation of the fundamental psychological needs that drive sustainable motivation and performance at work.
Read More →Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
A behavioral science-backed explanation of why autonomy, mastery, and purpose outperform traditional rewards in driving sustained performance.
Read More →The Outward Mindset
A practical framework explaining how shifting from a self-focused mindset to an other-aware orientation transforms collaboration, accountability, and organizational performance.
Read More →The Culture Code
An exploration of how successful groups build trust, belonging, and shared purpose through everyday behavioral signals.
Read More →Work Rules!
A data-driven blueprint for building high-performance organizations by redesigning people practices around trust, transparency, and evidence.
Read More →The Fearless Organization
An evidence-based exploration of psychological safety and why fear suppresses learning, performance, and ethical behavior in organizations.
Read More →Punished by Rewards: Alfie Kohn's Critique of Performance Pay
A rigorous critique of performance-contingent pay systems and why financial incentives undermine intrinsic motivation, collaboration, and long-term quality.
Read More →Superforecasting
A data-driven exploration of how certain individuals consistently make better predictions by thinking probabilistically and updating beliefs.
Read More →Thinking, Fast and Slow
A foundational behavioral science framework explaining how human judgment and decision-making are shaped by two competing modes of thinking.
Read More →The Confidence Gap
A psychologically grounded guide to understanding why confidence is not a prerequisite for action and how skillful behavior matters more than self-belief.
Read More →Employee Turnover: Causes, Consequences, and Control
A process view of employee turnover examining how job dissatisfaction translates into withdrawal cognitions, search behavior, evaluation of alternatives, and departure.
Read More →The Study of Turnover
A foundational work examining how organizational determinants, job satisfaction, and opportunity shape employee turnover patterns across work environments.
Read More →Employee Turnover
A comprehensive synthesis of turnover research examining multiple turnover models, avoidable vs. unavoidable attrition, and multi-lens diagnostic approaches.
Read More →Employee Retention and Turnover: Why Employees Stay or Leave
A modern synthesis of retention research examining job embeddedness, proximal withdrawal states, context-emergent turnover, and the distinct mechanisms of staying vs. leaving.
Read More →Decisive
A practical framework introducing the WRAP model to counter cognitive biases, widen options, reality-test assumptions, attain distance, and prepare for uncertainty in decision-making.
Read More →Thinking in Bets
A framework for separating decision quality from outcome quality, embracing uncertainty, and avoiding resulting bias in organizational judgment.
Read More →The Signal and the Noise
A foundational guide to forecasting and predictive analytics, explaining how to distinguish meaningful signal from random noise, calibrate confidence, and embrace uncertainty in workforce data.
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