The Basic Tribal Instincts that Drive Us with Michael Morris

Masters in Business

Bloomberg

Business, Investing

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Barry Ritholtz speaks with Michael Morris, cultural psychologist and Chavkin-Chang Professor of Leadership at the Columbia Business School. Prior to joining Columbia, Michael was a tenured professor at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and Psychology Department. He also served as a visiting professor at various institutions including the University of Hong Kong and Harvard Business School. Michael has published over 200 articles in leading behavioral science journals and has received countless international awards from scholarly societies across several fields. Michael serves as a consulting editor at the Journal of International Business and at Management and Organization Review. On this episode, Barry and Michael discuss the connection between psychology and leadership, the basic tribal instincts that drive us, and his new book Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together.

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1:01.0	This week on the podcast, I have another extra special guest.
1:05.6	Professor Michael Morris is a fascinating instructor of social psychology and the way tribalism affects us and the way we affect
1:16.5	tribes. His book, Tribal, How the Cultural Instincts that Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together,
1:22.1	is really a fascinating discussion of various ways that tribes are not etched in stone. They're not part of our DNA.
1:32.5	Tribes vary from culture to culture, from company to company, and that using tribes can be a very
1:39.6	effective way to turn a company around that's struggling, to change a country that's facing all sorts
1:48.0	of challenges, and essentially to become the best organization we can be. Full disclosure,
1:56.7	the professor has consulted for Bloomberg LP. That's the parent company of Bloomberg Radio,
2:02.2	where he led classes teaching corporate culture and tribalism. I thought the book was really
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