Michael Morris
The Navigator
Judgement in the fog, money, risk and the call others cannot make.
Michael Morris reads as The Navigator because he treats culture the way a skilled pilot reads wind, adjusting trim rather than fighting currents. The Columbia Business School social psychologist and author of Tribal insists that cultural forces are neither fixed nor hostile but dynamic systems a leader can actively steer.
“Ambition to be a contributor, they got socially rewarded. But it also was very adaptive for the group because it incentivized individuals to build tools that required toiling alone for a long period of time.”
“Yes, all of those are tribes in the sense that they are communities with an enduring identity across generations. What a generation means is different in a sports team than in a society.”
“Fair statement. Yeah, it's a position that kind of falls in between the traditional nature versus nurture framework that people of our age got in school.”
“And then comparative literature is obviously all about tradition and the collective representations that shape the discourse in a community over the centuries. And so I think it was kind of natural for me to be interested in how the received culture shapes the thought processes that a group of people have.”
Masters in Business: “The Basic Tribal Instincts that Drive Us with Michael Morris”
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