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How Teams Can Function When They Have Conflicting Goals

The Horizons Tracker

This was joined by a computer model that utilized Bayesian statistics and differential game theory to simulate such interactions. By contrast, when you lack such information, you tend to develop strategies that minimize the need for such information in the first place. 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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The Connection Between Inequality, Economic Decline, And Political Populism

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers developed a model that shows how group polarization soars during periods of rising inequality and economic distress. The models were based on evolutionary game theory and cultural evolution, and aimed to understand our willingness to interact with others outside of our social group. ” Cultural evolution.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

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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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Real Leaders Become Awakeners

The Empowered Buisness

In today’s ever increasing complexity and change, you are being called to operate at a new level of consciousness. While awakening is definitely not a common term within organizations, leaders who operate at a high level of consciousness and being are the awakeners in the business world. It’s a sign your soul is stirring ….

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How to hack a management system [brief talk]

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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.

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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.