Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Die Hard 2
On Sunday mornings, HBO often airs older movies. From my office, I can hear my husband watching Die Hard 2. It's been decades since I've watched that movie, but my ears perked up when I heard a scene that reminded me of the power and influence unit in OB class.
A character was trying to reach a government decision maker whose administrative assistant answered the phone. The character had urgent news about the facts on the ground and needed to convey them before the decision-maker selected a course of action. The administrative assistant, or gatekeeper, put the character off, saying her boss was busy and couldn't take any calls. The character threatened, "If you don't put me through, you might as well start typing your resume."
What type of power and what type of influence strategy does this represent - and how is the administrative assistant likely to respond?
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Brain Doubles
This reminds me a little of implicit egoism as well as the attraction paradigm since we are so apt to be attracted to people and things that are similar to us. It also made me wonder about the implications for teaching. How can faculty help stimulate "clicking" among students so they can really experience the material?
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
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