Investigations in the Workplace, 2nd Edition

Introduction

The famous jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. thoughtfully mused almost 100 years ago, “We need education [of] the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.”¹ The son of an accomplished physician, philosopher, and poet, Justice Holmes is considered one of the greatest legal minds in U.S. history. During the end of the nineteenth century he witnessed the birth of the secular progressive movement and the rise of modern science, which helped advance it. Civilization’s infatuation with self-actualization and social experimentation ...