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How Teams Can Function When They Have Conflicting Goals

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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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The Science Of Scheduling Meetings Effectively

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Scheduling meetings Research from INSEAD utilizes game theory to explore how meetings can be more effectively scheduled. For instance, if a team is small and pretty homogenous, then the best approach is to create meetings based on the needs of the team members. Larger teams Teams of medium size have a couple of options.

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Weekly Round-Up: 3 Lessons in Mental Toughness, Supporting Employees During COVID-19, Test of Leadership, Creating a Crisis Communications Strategy

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Given the current state of business today and how much has changed because of COVID-19 and calls for racial justice, I'm continuing to use the Weekly Round-Up as a place to share some of the best resources I'm seeing to help leaders and communicators navigate these challenges with their teams. Read more >>

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Would You Pay To Change A Game Before Playing It?

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Games are largely seen as enjoyable ways to pass the time, with the outcome not to be taken too seriously, but of course game theory defines games more broadly as any interaction between decision makers who probably have well-defined (if different) preferences. Bending the rules. ”

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The Small Number Of Autonomous Cars Required To Improve Traffic Flow

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This state can be achieved in about two minutes, which the team suggest will result in high-speed, greener and safer traffic flow. The authors describe how autonomous vehicles achieve this self-organized state on the road, such that the traffic flow is split into more controllable clusters.

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4 Steps To Become An Aware Leader

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Moore and Bazerman cite the example of game theory as a good way to test out how situations may unfold but you might also use things like scenario planning or red teaming to better imagine various different futures and the things that contribute to their unfolding.

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Do People Trust Robots As Much As Humans?

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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.