A Theory of No-Thing

No such thing as a bad day.

This is an excerpt from Hamilton Jordan's book No Such Thing as a Bad Day reprinted with permission.

No such thing as a free lunch.

conomists love to say that there is no such thing as a free lunch. But the Chilean government agency responsible for school grants, Junta Nacional de Auxilio Escolar y Becas (JUNAEB), is an exception to the rule. During the school year, JUNAEB provides breakfast and lunch for 2 million children in primary and secondary public schools. In a developing country where about 14 percent of children u...

Regulation is no bad thing.

There's no such thing as "nonjudgmental" debriefing: a theory and method for debriefing with good judgment.

We report on our experience with an approach to debriefing that emphasizes disclosing instructors' judgments and eliciting trainees' assumptions about the situation and their reasons for acting as they did. To highlight the importance of instructors disclosing their judgment skillfully, we call the approach "debriefing with good judgment." The approach draws on theory and empirical findings fro...

There's No Such Thing as Best Practice