Rebel talent
A behavioral scientist explores why "rebels" with unconventional outlooks who break the rules find the greatest success, discussing how they drive innovation and reinvention by defying the status quo.
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What Hacker News says
- Three books come to mind:
- "Rebel Talent : Why It Pays to Break the Rules" by Francesca Gino
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/rebel-talent-why-it-pays-to-br...
- "Originals : How Non-Conformists Move the..." by Adam M. Grant
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/originals-how-non-conformists-...
- "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/outliers-the-story-of-success-...
- She wrote the book "Rebel Talent: why it pays to break the rules".
- So the author of a bestselling book on why breaking the rules can be advantageous... broke the rules?
https://www.amazon.com/Rebel-Talent-Pays-Break-Rules/dp/0062...
- Read the 5 most recent reviews on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Rebel-Talent-Pays-Break-Rules/dp/0062...
- Perhaps an earlier warning sign could have been the the author of:
“Rebel Talent: Why it Pays to Break the Rules in Work and Life” [1]
might just, you know ... break the rules in work ...
[1] https://www.ucl.ac.uk/political-science/events/2021/may/care...
- She was right about her book title "Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life."
Committing fraud paid well. HBS professor salary is about $220K per year. Ten years of salary is a $2 million payoff. Big incentives to do this.
Worth a policy change by university for clawbacks of salary and especially pensions and tenure. Like insider trading she should be forced to disgorge all the profits from her fraud. Dan Ariely too.
And worth charging for criminal fraud, she defrauded her university and students. 5 years in jail seems fine.
It's time to stop pretending academics are a medieval nobles who grow faint at the idea of their sacred honor being besmirched. With huge salary opportunities for bold populist claims academics will take big risks to achieve choice jobs even if they think they will eventually be discovered.
