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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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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…
Patrick Lencioni surveyed thousands of teams and found the same five dysfunctions in almost every one that underperformed
Lencioni's pyramid starts with absence of trust at the base and works…
Roy Baumeister’s willpower research was the most cited in psychology and then half of it failed to replicate
Ego depletion shaped corporate wellness for a decade. Recent replication failures upended…
Tariffs just forced 97% of small business importers to rethink their entire supply chain
A tariff survival strategy is now operator work, not policy work. Small…
Recognition and reward are not the same thing and conflating them is costing you people
Most managers treat recognition and reward as interchangeable. Research shows they're not,…
75% of CEOs say they should bridge trust divides but only 44% actually do
Edelman's 2026 Trust Barometer found a 31-point gap between CEOs who say…