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The “fundamental attribution error” refers to our tendency to overattribute others’ behaviors to their dispositions, while reversing this tendency for ourselves.
Eliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
Adam Grant • PrinciplesYou From Ray Dalio
One group of managers were primarily motivated by a need for affiliation—they were more interested in being liked than getting things done. A second group were primarily motivated by a need for achievement—goal attainment for themselves. And a third group were primarily interested in power. The evidence showed that this third group, the managers pr
... See moreJeffrey Pfeffer • Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't
Morgan Housel on the Ringelmann Effect (very applicable to large organizations):
Members of a group become lazier as the size of their group increases. Based on the assumption that “someone else is probably taking care of that.”
One group of managers were primarily motivated by a need for affiliation—they were more interested in being liked than getting things done. A second group were primarily motivated by a need for achievement—goal attainment for themselves. And a third group were primarily interested in power. The evidence showed that this third group, the managers pr
... See moreJeffrey Pfeffer • Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't
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Adam Grant • Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
those who do this kind of work expect to contribute their best regardless of compensation.8 They would be disturbed by any suggestion to the contrary.