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How Teams Can Function When They Have Conflicting Goals

The Horizons Tracker

Teams are understandably most effective when their goals are both clearly articulated, and shared between all participants. The researchers asked pairs of volunteers to complete a task whereby each participant was assigned a competing set of movements on a mechanical apparatus. Optimal cooperation.

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Do People Trust Robots As Much As Humans?

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers conducted a trust game experiment, whereby human volunteers were asked to bestow a $10 endowment to a partner, who was either a human, a robot, or a robot acting on behalf of a human. It was in many ways a classic game theory setup, with the human volunteer knowing that gains were to be made, but trust would be key.

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How to hack a management system [brief talk]

Ask Atma

Game theory applications – tapping into mutualistic dynamics. Only instead of the byzantine application of a formal language you are dealing with emotional needs, cultural expectations, societal mores, all operating in an invisible and impossibly complex array. Wiring in innovation as a cultural behavior. Thank you.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

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Research: Missing Product Information Doesn’t Bother Consumers as Much as It Should

Harvard Business Review

After one of her patients dies on the operating table, a lawyer for the patient’s family discovers that the surgeon deliberately withheld the mortality data. This is in contrast to norms of rationality that a large body of economic research has developed over decades. How Information Can Unravel.