What Human Resources Actually Is, and Why Neglecting It Quietly Ends, and Stunts, the Companies That Get It Wrong
Why organizations can appear healthy while failures in the management of people are already eroding performance, value, and institutional capacity.
quietlykilling.com
Behavioral Economics, Self-Concept Maintenance, and the Architecture of Organizational Self-Deception
Why organizations protect their own self-image, suppress the information they most need, and often resist correction until dysfunction becomes structural.
thehonestorganization.com
Consciousness, the Practico-Inert, and Distributive Answerability
A study of freedom, judgment, and responsibility that develops into a theory of institutional answerability: how organizations distribute knowledge, authority, alternatives, and consequences among the people inside them.
sartresconceptionoffreedom.com2026
How organizations preserve a coherent self-image while tolerating the gap between what they say and what they do.
2026
Generative Artificial Intelligence, Counsel Direction, and Attorney-Client Privilege in United States and European Union Law
When the use of generative artificial intelligence changes the legal treatment of confidential information, privilege, and responsibility across United States and European law.
Earlier work
Weblog
Writing on leadership, institutional change, decentralized authority, and the management of people, published at Harvard and archived there. The earliest form of the questions the books above take up.
2012
The first edition of the study revised and expanded in 2023.
2010
1997
A study of the a priori structure and self-grounding character of judgment.