Management Thinker

Long inquiries into how durable things get made.

My research sits at the seam between organizational behavior and cultural history. I publish findings as papers, essays, and the occasional book.

Working paper2025

The Attention Study

An empirical look at how knowledge workers in three cities protect deep work in interrupt-driven organizations.

Monograph2024

A study of seventeen organizations — public, private, and civic — that have endured for more than a century.

Essay2023

On why durable systems require a particular cultural appetite for waiting, and how that appetite is built.

Report2022

Mapping the informal practices that hold creative communities together when formal institutions retreat.