11 Looking Back

DOI: 10.4324/9781003365549-11

The 50-year professional journey that I have chronicled in this book has provided me with a wealth of lessons learned. I have related many of these lessons in the preceding chapters. My objective in this chapter is to provide an integrated perspective of these varied lessons, including a few potential overarching lessons.

There are several types of lessons. You might learn something that was previously unknown to you. You could learn how this thing works in terms of inputs and outputs or equivalent. You might learn about how to affect this thing. You could seek to learn how behavioral and social phenomena affect it. The result could be the knowledge and skills that enable you to make a difference. ...

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