It's your job, as the user in our assessment, to figure out how the disease is spreading, which disease it is, which animals are being impacted, how the group dynamics or the herd dynamics are feeding into that equation, and to then develop a solution, try it out, see how well it works, adapt as the simulation gives you feedback.
that has nothing to do with my willingness or your willingness to protect each other. And that group affiliation that overrides our personal feelings is absolutely essential to the sort of small group dynamics that combat and hunting depend on. So how do you figure that out before the test, before the first firefight?
our group. Evolution goes beyond, in humans, just the simple "replicating my own genes", but it's also mediated in group dynamics . All that is to say that we are this evolutionary species.
you will, bad is stronger than good and some of the best research is actually, This American Life episode in this you can listen to, was done and reviewed by a guy named Will Felps and he looked at the group dynamics literature and essentially, showed that different sort of negative characters, so what I would call assholes, deadbeats, depressive people, they would pretty consistently bring down performance 30 or 40% than if they had just one. And there's two basic mechanisms that the researchers talk about; about why this happens. The first
He mentioned to me that he's sick of talking about politics, so he's not going to be talking about that subject. Instead he's going to talk about the group dynamics and psychology that make effective organizations like Google function as well as they do. He's been a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia for 16 years.
is so strong, so cohesive, attractive and persuasive, that gradually you start becoming alienated from everyone else who thinks differently. Your social circle starts to narrow to the group itself. You exist in a cocoon. This is classic group dynamics theory. There is a persuasive argument that Islamic terrorism works the same way. Marc Sageman, who was a forensic psychiatrist and former CIA agent, who has studied who become a Jihadi, concludes that the vast majority of young men who become
But they thought there was something else going on. And they kind of stopped and when the momentum in the group dynamics , when the momentum's gone, and somebody goes, "Maybe we should leave." They left. So I was escorted for about two weeks after the march.
that? And clearly more top tier talent isn't the answer. So what's the trick? I mean how do you go from being so in this case individually oriented to being team focused right? There there's two different ways. One is we can talk about group dynamics and then the second is who's on the team. So a group of researchers I believe led by a team at um BN um what's it called? Bringham Young University. We're curious are there people who cause a multiplier effect on other employees?
And so it's a good thing to refer to at least on your own. for working on personal leadership, group dynamics .
And there is a big responsibility for any tech firm, for any online platform, I think, yet to also consider these new forms of online identities, online communities, and group dynamics that are taking shape, and to address some of these subculture elements. And for example, the first comment beneath the livestream video was saying "is this a LARP?" Is this a life action role play?
One where people say what they think, try things, try new things and make mistakes. There was a sociological study-- there was a sociologist who got a bunch of people together to solve a problem, and what he was looking at was group dynamics . And the problem with this, they had a pile of straws and a couple clips, and the goal was to try to see how