The Power of Being Divisive

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"Thomas Roulet has very compellingly articulated the power of divisiveness in channeling negative social evaluations and perceived stigma to empower us into action and success, something that I have experienced personally in my professional life. Highly relevant and a must-read for professionals as well as researchers grappling with the velocity and impact of social perceptions in the increasingly digital world."-Navdeep Arora, former Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company "A careful and forensic analysis of why and how attacks by others on your capability or your character can in fact be positive and productive forces. The book takes us through a journey of in-groups, echo chambers, social trolls, post-truth narratives, and permanent peer evaluation to bring us fresh insights into the addictive practice of picking each other apart."-Rupert Younger, Director, Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation "This is a must-read for organization and management theory scholars. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the overlapping literatures that address how organizations are influenced by negative social evaluations. Roulet puts forward-convincingly-the strikingly counterintuitive idea that under certain conditions negative evaluations are beneficial-and, in contrast, that positive evaluations can have negative consequences for the targeted actors. How this happens, and the potential implications for society, are thought-provoking and often worrying. This is a timely and important book."-Royston Greenwood, Professor Emeritus, Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta, and Professorial Fellow, University of Edinburgh Business School "While not explicitly a management book, this is a fascinating study of the social-media fuelled and fast-changing landscape of public opinion, and the possible ways in which that might be beneficial."-Financial Times "Roulet's framework provides an important starting point for understanding how organizations and their members might survive in a world where everyone's a critic with easy access to a social platform."-Kimberly D. Elsbach, Administrative Science Quarterly