LESSON TEN
Nothing Succeeds Like Success
Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
ONE OF THE INTERESTING things I’ve learned in my own life is that people love success, and that success causes individuals to reconstruct, rethink, and reremember things that aren’t true. I still recall a meeting at the American Sociological Association a long time ago, and my dear friend Paul Hirsch—who was at that time teaching at the University of Chicago—and I were sitting at a bar and having a drink. And he said to me, “Jeffrey, we’re pretty good friends. I’d love to ask you a question.” I said, “Of course, Paul, anything you want to know.”
He said, “Well, my colleagues at ...
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