ABSTRACT

These ruminations could as well have been called ‘tales of two teams’. For they are a personal chewing over of memories of two research teams, end-on in my own life but otherwise unrelated, the first in conditions of munificence and the second in conditions of scarcity. In the first, there was both as much money and, for the central participants, as much time in each twenty-fourhour day as could be made use of; in the second, both were hard to come by and never enough. The first team, which studied power, was in Alberta, Canada; the second, which studied decision making, was in Bradford, England

It has to be said, even though it should be obvious, that these tales are told here in the manner in which they linger in a particular person’s memory, my own. Ruminations are solitary. Other members of the same teams would tell the same basic stories, but would do so from the points of view of their own careers and feelings. My point of view is that of the originator of each team who set the balls rolling on two very different pitches, and was the only member who belonged to both.