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Conversations with Tyler

Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Cultures

Conversations with Tyler

Conversations with Tyler

Society & Culture, Education

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Michele Gelfand is professor of psychology at the University of Maryland and author of the just-released Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World. In her conversation with Tyler, Michele unpacks the concept of tight and loose cultures and more, including which variable best explains tightness, the problem with norms, whether Silicon Valley has an honor culture, the importance of theory and history in guiding research, what Donald Trump gets wrong about negotiation, why MBAs underrate management, the need to develop cultural IQ, and why mentorship should last a lifetime.

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Recorded August 31st, 2018

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I'm here today with Michelle Galfand, who is a professor of psychology at the University

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of Maryland.

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And she has a very interesting new book out called Rulemakers, Rule Breakers, How Tight and

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