Who can recall this ‘American Type’, once lost in the fog of a yester-year, reivegortated in The Age Of Trump, asks Political Observer?
Apr 03, 2025
A fresh, research-driven playbook for how successful leaders can maximize the potential of others
When we think of leaders, we often imagine lone, inspirational figures lauded for their behaviors, attributes, and personal decisions—a perception that is reinforced by many leadership books. However, this approach ignores the expectations of modern work cultures centered on equity and inclusion, where a leader’s true mission is to empower others. Applying decades of behavioral science research, Don A. Moore and Max H. Bazerman offer a passionate corrective to this view, casting today’s organizations as decision factories in which effective leaders are decision architects, enabling those around them to make wise, ethical choices consistent with their own interests and the organization’s highest values. As a result, a leader’s impact grows because it ripples out instead of relying on one individual to play the part of heroic figure.
Filled with real-life stories and examples of the structures, incentives, and systems that successful leaders have used, this playbook equips each of us to facilitate wise decisions.
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Editor: Recall ‘The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit’ in the 1955 novel by Sloan Wilson and the Movie of 1956 ?
Political Observer
I recall reading ‘The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit’ sometime in the 1990’s. I had to stop reading this book – I felt a growing sence of creeping claustrophobia, as Wilson’s book described the ethos of that time and place in post-war America. In the near political present ‘Mad Men’ captured, although awash in retograde nostalgia, and in evocative color resolution, what that time was like…
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