Humble Consulting

About the Author—in His Own Words

I came into the world of “real work” from an academic background—a general education at the University of Chicago, a Masters Degree in Social Psychology from Stanford, and a PhD in Social Psychology, which included sociology and anthropology, from Harvard’s Department of Social Relations. I planned to be an experimental social psychologist but decided after a productive postdoctoral stint at the Walter Reed Institute of Research to try my hand at doing this kind of research in the MIT Sloan School of Management. I had no idea at the time I made this decision in 1956 that the world of management would not only ...