Charles S. Jacobs
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Charles S. Jacobs is the author of Management Rewired (www.managementrewired.com). He is also managing partner of One Eighty Partners and the founder of the Amherst Consulting Group. He is an advisor to Fortune 500 companies and his clients have included Verizon, Citigroup, Exxon-Mobil, and more than fifty of the Fortune 100. An active speaker and lecturer, he has been interviewed by numerous radio and television shows and writes a blog for Psychology Today.

He lives in Boston and is frequently in New York City.

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Brain Science and Managerial Cannibalism

Posted May 13, 2010 | 13:57:10 (EST)

In 1953, Professor James McConell taught flatworms to run through a maze by administering shocks to them when they took a wrong turn. There was nothing new in this simple demonstration of operant conditioning, but the next phase of the experiment got really interesting. McConell ground up the worms, fed...

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