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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. How do teams manage to function when their goals are conflicting however? This was joined by a computer model that utilized Bayesian statistics and differential game theory to simulate such interactions.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

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. Emotional control – successful anger and/or frustration management. Curiosity – inclination to learn.

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Better Ways of Thinking About Risks

Harvard Business Review

It includes decision analysis, game theory, and operations research. Evaluation serves these goals if it prizes learning; it undermines them if it ignores how difficult risk analysis can be. Leaders don't need to master them; they just need to know what they can do, so that they can match methods (and experts) to problems.

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Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career

Harvard Business Review

But my experience is all working with baseball data, or learning game theory because you want to be better at poker, right? In Moneyball that on-base percentage is better than batting average looks like ‘OK, well, the goal is to score runs. Decision making Managing uncertainty'

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How to hack a management system [brief talk]

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That’s kind of like a project manager on academic steroids. My goal is to teach whoever is ready to re-engineer their business, startup, or organization. Game theory applications – tapping into mutualistic dynamics. Hacking your management system. [A 5 minute talk given at LA Hackers on April 23, 2011 at Coloft].

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