What We’re Reading
Our faculty and thought leaders are constantly reading, researching and striving to obtain more knowledge, so we’ve created a reference guide of books they are reading and why they find them interesting.
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February 15, 2023
Throughline
While it seems like our society is developing at an evermore rapid pace, current events are inherently contextualized in historic developments.... Read More »
November 8, 2022
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
There is a data set ‘out there’ that knows more about us than surveys or social media (or even our friends!?) could ever hope to know. It’s that little bar into which we (apparently) type our... Read More »
July 20, 2022
The House Advantage: Playing the Odds to Win Big in Business
We talk a lot about data-driven decision making on Consumer Corner, because there are many good reasons to use data to make business decisions. The problem is that when we become data-driven, we face... Read More »
May 24, 2022
What Should Danny Do?
In our house, we like to read the classics — Dr. Seuss, Sesame Street, Goodnight Moon, and so on. With two little ones at home, fitting in adult reading can be a real challenge! However, many of... Read More »
March 2, 2022
Wellbeing at Work
How do we measure success in business? Most often we have used financial metrics to look at success, but what if we measured success based on how people within a business experienced the work... Read More »
October 14, 2021
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
Have you ever struggled to know how to have a productive confrontation with someone over a sensitive, complex or controversial matter? Have you ever struggled with deficiencies in your interpersonal... Read More »
July 21, 2021
Escaping 1980 – Understanding the Farm Crisis and its Impacts on Agriculture Today
The 1980s farm financial crisis impacts everyone involved in U.S. agriculture today in one way or another. We either lived through it personally, or we’ve grown up in its long-standing shadow. The... Read More »
May 12, 2021
How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life and Politics as a Lifesaver
Recently, I read a New York Times commentary by David Leonhardt entitled Politics as a Lifesaver. This commentary made a reference that led me to Steven Johnson’s How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra... Read More »
February 5, 2021
Creating Great Choices: A Leader’s Guide to Integrative Thinking
Strategy is about making choices, often while facing a great deal of uncertainty. As decision makers, we tend to limit our choices when facing uncertainty as fear of the unknown can be paralyzing.... Read More »
February 5, 2021
The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone’s Mind
I often say that in Purdue University’s Agricultural Economics department comprised of over 30 faculty members, I'm the only one who isn't an economist; I'm a behaviorist. I came to ag econ late in... Read More »