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. Where others see tribal division as a destination, Morris maps it as terrain, and locates shared ritual as the passage through it.
“Culture is a set of lenses that we look through, but the lenses are shifting and the lenses change over time.”
“As a leader you're not thinking of culture as an obstacle to what you want to get done. It's a force that you can harness, that you can dial up or dial down.”
“We can use our cultural capacities for ritual to move beyond differences. By celebrating Thanksgiving, we should remember that we can get beyond much worse political crises than the one we have today.”
Masters in Business: “The Basic Tribal Instincts that Drive Us with Michael Morris”
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