Harvard Business Review ironically peddles a lot of this bad science constantly in order to fill its digital content stream...I wish we could just start with ‘behavioral interviewing’ training so companies would stop getting played by candidates...
Why don't obese people lose weight? Why don't abused people leave bad relationships? Why do people not get that moar information is the solution (insert angry scientist waving hand image)...
Human Resources [in the broadest sense of the word] seems to to still suffer a lack of understanding of Human Nature.
The only thing that replaces a story is a better story we can tell ourselves [not better as in technically, but better as making me feel better or will better ensure my -ego-survival].
And that even requires a perfect storm of zeitgeist, pressure, momentum and more (see the documentary 9to5: The Story of A Movement about women office workers and their path to today).
As we've seen with a whole bunch of things, skepticism of science is more outspoken than ever [ I would wager it was always high, but in the olden days authority could override that reflex, where as now authority/cred for most institutions is shot]
A few people who are major evidence-based supporters have talked about the need for dropping the "But the evidence should be enough" attitude.
Rory Sutherland in his Alchemy talks about how the irrational/placebo is not a barrier but an opportunity.
And on a micro level "deep canvassing" is science backed political campaigning innovation that shows that people can quickly change... but perhaps too fringe at present to be adopted mainstream.
Most of the time people, emotionally/psychologically are in a different year than those seeking change.
For instance the ketogenic diet (https://barbend.com/keto-diet-history/) has been around for many many years in the "bro/meathead" circles, and only recently in conjunction with science has this "fad" become mainstream and shown to have benefits many people aka the mainstream care about [ like diabetes].
Change is messy, takes time and is very unpredictable. It is the elephant in the room that people do not want to admit because it does not rhyme with the story [rational master of my own faith] that capitalism / companies tell themselves about themselves
And things that are lindy [resume for instance] also become industrial complexes which means a lot of interests and money in keeping things as they are, more or less.. Like the other reply said, even HBR is as much part of the complex while selling "solutions" within the current overton window.
In the end it seems that sowing many seeds at a various levels of power and influence is a way forward for some of the evidence to be adopted at some point.. if it survives the fad/boring cycle a few times one day we wake up and call it culture..
Harvard Business Review ironically peddles a lot of this bad science constantly in order to fill its digital content stream...I wish we could just start with ‘behavioral interviewing’ training so companies would stop getting played by candidates...
Stowe,
Why don't obese people lose weight? Why don't abused people leave bad relationships? Why do people not get that moar information is the solution (insert angry scientist waving hand image)...
Human Resources [in the broadest sense of the word] seems to to still suffer a lack of understanding of Human Nature.
The only thing that replaces a story is a better story we can tell ourselves [not better as in technically, but better as making me feel better or will better ensure my -ego-survival].
And that even requires a perfect storm of zeitgeist, pressure, momentum and more (see the documentary 9to5: The Story of A Movement about women office workers and their path to today).
As we've seen with a whole bunch of things, skepticism of science is more outspoken than ever [ I would wager it was always high, but in the olden days authority could override that reflex, where as now authority/cred for most institutions is shot]
A few people who are major evidence-based supporters have talked about the need for dropping the "But the evidence should be enough" attitude.
Rory Sutherland in his Alchemy talks about how the irrational/placebo is not a barrier but an opportunity.
And on a micro level "deep canvassing" is science backed political campaigning innovation that shows that people can quickly change... but perhaps too fringe at present to be adopted mainstream.
Most of the time people, emotionally/psychologically are in a different year than those seeking change.
For instance the ketogenic diet (https://barbend.com/keto-diet-history/) has been around for many many years in the "bro/meathead" circles, and only recently in conjunction with science has this "fad" become mainstream and shown to have benefits many people aka the mainstream care about [ like diabetes].
Change is messy, takes time and is very unpredictable. It is the elephant in the room that people do not want to admit because it does not rhyme with the story [rational master of my own faith] that capitalism / companies tell themselves about themselves
And things that are lindy [resume for instance] also become industrial complexes which means a lot of interests and money in keeping things as they are, more or less.. Like the other reply said, even HBR is as much part of the complex while selling "solutions" within the current overton window.
In the end it seems that sowing many seeds at a various levels of power and influence is a way forward for some of the evidence to be adopted at some point.. if it survives the fad/boring cycle a few times one day we wake up and call it culture..