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David Kirby

David Kirby is a professor at Missouri State University and contributor at Mindset, holding a BA from the Catholic University of America and a Juris Doctor from Washington University in St. Louis. He writes about leadership, workplace psychology, and the strategic thinking frameworks that help managers and founders make better decisions.
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HBR identified 9 trends shaping work in 2026 and the one most managers are ignoring could cost them their team

HBR's 2026 workplace trends research shows distance bias in hybrid settings is…

The 2026 Deloitte Human Capital survey says 73% of organizations are redesigning work around AI and almost none have told their employees

Deloitte's latest data reveals a massive communication gap between what leadership is…

The average manager now spends 4.1 hours per day in meetings according to Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index

Microsoft's data from 31,000 workers shows meeting load increased 252% since 2020…

K. Anders Ericsson studied violinists at a Berlin conservatory and the best ones hadn’t practiced more — they’d practiced differently

The '10,000 hours' rule that Gladwell popularized came from Ericsson's research, but…

We played Google’s ‘Garden Gnome’ game. Here’s what it taught us about grit mindset

Google's 2018 Garden Gnomes Doodle looks like a silly time-waster — you…