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Social scientists have studied the nature of effective leadership for centuries with limited success. Physicists, on the other hand, are new to the party, which gives them a chance to nab some low-hanging fruit. Today, Hai-Tao Zhang at the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and a few buddies say that they have grabbed a particularly juicy piece by revealing a key strategy of effective leadership.
How to Save the World - Can Groups Be Taught to Resolve Their Own Inadequacies?
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So my sense is that the role of the facilitator in dealing with complex
issues should include the following:
Being
aware of the
presence or absence in the group of the necessary preconditions for a
functional group.
Being
aware of the
presence or absence of social fluency among the members of the group,
and of the group collectively,
as described in the model
above.
Articulating to the
group the
presence or absence of these preconditions and the elements of
social fluency, so that they
are aware of their strengths
and weaknesses.
Suggesting
compensatory
ideas and methods (e.g.
bringing in people, knowledge or teachers) to strengthen
the group.
Most
importantly, enabling the group to
self-assess these
strengths and weaknesses and
to self-generate
ideas and methods to draw on strengths and alleviate or compensate for
weaknesses, to make the group
and its members stronger and
more competent to address the issues at hand. -
have found that business groups in particular
often suffer from imaginative poverty, and that there is great value in
doing some quiet advance brainstorming with creative and imaginative
people, and then pre-seeding some provocative and credible ideas to selected group members,
so that these ideas emerge as their
ideas during the session and not mine as facilitator. Even better, if
the group acknowledges this (or any other factor) as a collective
incapacity, it can enable them to collectively invest more attention
and effort on that area of weakness, or bring in others who have that
capacity, or even follow a course of study or practice to acquire that
capacity.
group threat bleg « orgtheory.net
Question for you soc psych folks: What are the modern articles addressing threat and group identity?
Creativity, Innovation, Collaboration - Group Genius by Keith Sawyer
In this authoritative and fascinating book, Keith Sawyer, a psychologist at Washington University, tears down some of the most popular myths about creativity and erects new principles in their place. The empowering message is that all of us have the potential to be more creative; we just need to learn the secrets of group genius.
PhilSci Archive - The importance of pairwork in educational and interdisciplinary initiatives
An early and prominent employee of Google, Georges Harik, recently made the assertion that pairs working together in startups are 20 times more productive than individuals working alone. The author has also personally experienced the boost of what is here termed pairwork in a university setting during the startup phase of several educational and interdisciplinary initiatives. The paper briefly explores pairwork in the history of technology and constructs both qualitative and little quantitative models of pairwork. The quantitative model under reasonable assumptions easily recovers Harik’s 20x boost. The paper also briefly examines the author’s recent experiences with pairwork in four interdisciplinary and educational initiatives.
BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: How to improve group decision making
A new meta-analysis of 72 studies, involving 4,795 groups and over 17,000 individuals has shown that groups tend to spend most of their time discussing the information shared by members, which is therefore redundant, rather than discussing information known only to one or a minority of members. This is important because those groups that do share unique information tend to make better decisions.
Coding Horror: The Bad Apple: Group Poison
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Invariably, groups that had the bad apple would perform worse. And this despite the fact that were people in some groups that were very talented, very smart, very likeable. Felps found that the bad apple's behavior had a profound effect -- groups with bad apples performed 30 to 40 percent worse than other groups. On teams with the bad apple, people would argue and fight, they didn't share relevant information, they communicated less.
Even worse, other team members began to take on the bad apple's characteristics. When the bad apple was a jerk, other team members would begin acting like a jerk. When he was a slacker, they began to slack, too. And they wouldn't act this way just in response to the bad apple. They'd act this way to each other, in sort of a spillover effect.
What they found, in short, is that the worst team member is the best predictor of how any team performs. It doesn't seem to matter how great the best member is, or what the average member of the group is like. It all comes down to what your worst team member is like. The teams with the worst person performed the poorest.
Cultural Theory of risk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cultural Theory of risk, often referred to simply as Cultural Theory, consists of a conceptual framework and an associated body of empirical studies that seek to explain societal conflict over risk. Whereas other theories of risk perception stress economic and cognitive influences, Cultural Theory asserts that structures of social organization endow individuals with perceptions that reinforce those structures in competition against alternative ones. Originating in the work of anthropologist Mary Douglas and political scientist Aaron Wildavsky,
Unboxed - For Innovators, There Is Brainpower in Numbers - NYTimes.com
DESPITE the enduring myth of the lone genius, innovation does not take place in isolation. Truly productive invention requires the meeting of minds from myriad perspectives, even if the innovators themselves don’t always realize it.
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