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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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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…
Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study on luck and discovered that lucky people do four specific things that unlucky people don’t
Wiseman's luck research found that luck is a learnable skill. The four…
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…
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…