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This Land of Strangers

"..the most important book of the decade." — Richard Boyatzis, co-author of best seller Primal Leadership

Relationships, in all their varied forms, have been the lifetime study of Robert Hall. He brings a rare combination of experience as a researcher, consultant, writer, teacher and CEO in dealing with the real-world relationship challenges of modern organizations. When coupled with a decade of hands-on experience in the gritty world of inner-city homeless families it translates into a tapestry of vivid stories, well-researched and oft startling facts, and strategic insights that weave together the yet untold narrative of society's gravest risk and most stellar opportunity.

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Robert has published more than 150 columns, articles, white papers, and research studies on relationship. In addition to being a regular contributor at Huffington Post, his work has been published and discussed in Forbes, American Banker, Sales & Marketing Management magazine, The CEO Magazine, ABA Bank Marketing magazine, Computerworld, The Daily Beast, Business Week, The Dallas Morning News, Los Angeles Times, The Detroit News, The Indianapolis Star and in international publications including Sydney Morning News (Australia), European Financial Management Association (London) and Relational Thinking Network (Cambridge, UK).

Overcoming Convention: What You Know for Sure That Ain’t So

Jul 15

Don’t believe everything you think. – Thomas Kida

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It happens over and again. Conventional wisdom that is heavy on convention and light on wisdom. One of the latest conventions to bite the dust is the crime rate. The learned class has assumed that difficult economic times lead to higher crime rates. So when the FBI announced that violent crime in the U.S. had reached a 40-year low in 2010, many criminologists were dumbfounded. Noted scholar James Q. Wilson reports in The […]