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How Teams Can Function When They Have Conflicting Goals

The Horizons Tracker

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. Teams are understandably most effective when their goals are both clearly articulated, and shared between all participants.

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How to hack a management system [brief talk]

Ask Atma

That’s kind of like a project manager on academic steroids. 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]. My name is Atma. I am an industrial psychologist. Wiring in innovation as a cultural behavior.

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Brands Represent Risk Mitigation for Consumers

Strategy Driven

Some economists explain brands from a game-theory perspective. They say that brands are a mechanism for companies to engage customers in repeated games. All McDonald’s locations in rest stops are directly owned and operated by the corporation. How do brands work on a societal level?

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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. The set of such methods, tested by peer review of their scientific foundations and success with their application, is actually quite small — and familiar to most business school graduates.

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How to Make Unlimited Vacation Time Work at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Leaders who successfully implement unlimited vacation policies operate in companies that are already high in trust. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself. Managing Yourself Book. In many cases, organizations that make the switch successfully also make sure that managers get excited when employees take their days off.