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Michael J. Driver

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Driver, Michael J. Michael J. Driver, Professor of Management and Organization at USC, passed away September 19, 2004 from malignant melanoma, diagnosed only this past summer. Dr. Driver was born on May 4, 1936 in Salem, Massachusetts. Most of his youth, however, was spent in Buffalo, New York....

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It has been 17 years since Mike passed. Yet, his professional contributions continue to benefit others around the world. For me, Mike was a great colleague and a dear friend. I miss him still.

I was Mike's business colleague in Decision Dynamics Europe for more than 10 years. I am very grateful for having had the opportunity to get insight into and share his vision of better understanding human behaviour so to create a better life for people. I am looking forward to many years of carrying on and extending his legacy. I will miss you Mike. And I will miss sharing the feeling of satisfaction when your insight is changing not only a few, but many, many peoples'lives.

I was a student of Professor Driver in early 2003 @ USC's Marhall School of Business. He opened up a new understanding of working relationships for me and was very instrumental in my decision to pursue a new career path. He will be missed very much and I was very saddened to hear of his passing. My heart and prayers goes out to his family.

I first met Professor Mike Driver almost 20 years ago as a doctoral student at USC. Already the first lecture I had with him became the most important lecture in my life and it has substantially impacted most of the things I've been doing these last two decades. Mike's brilliant thinking about how different individuals fit different work and organizational situations has never stopped to amaze me. I truly miss our discussions and visits on either side of the Atlantic. Mike, you will always be...

Mike Driver is an inspiration to me and many others. His humanitarian focus and drive to understand people was driven by a sense of empathy and appreciation of value in human diversity shared by few. I will miss him.

I was Mike Driver’s colleague, business partner, and friend for 29 years. Mike was easily the most brilliant man I’ve ever met. He was enormously creative. These qualities became very apparent in short order to anyone who met him. Mike also was a great humanist.

As brilliant and creative people often do, Mike did things in his own very unique way. People who didn’t know him well probably found it difficult to read Mike and to understand clearly what it was that he ultimately...