Practicing What We Teach: Applying My Theories and Methods Within My Own Organization
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A business professor who spent 30 years building management theories finally turned them on his own organization — and what he found is a masterclass in why experts are often the last to practice what they preach.
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Theory Briefing
- A Katz Business School professor spent 30 years crafting management theories without applying them to his own academic institution.
- Turning his frameworks inward revealed the classic gap between theoretical expertise and real-world organizational behavior.
- The experiment exposes how even theory creators fall prey to the practitioner-expert divide — a blind spot no credential can fix.