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The Hidden Factor: Why Thinking Differently Is Your Greatest Asset

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Learn the strategies that make you a more diverse thinker and position you to break down institutional silos and build robust, effective teams, delivered by a pioneering researcher in his field.

Syllabus

  • 01: Individual Diversity and Collective Performance
  • 02: Why Now? The Rise of Diversity
  • 03: Diversity Squared
  • 04: The Wisdom of Crowds
  • 05: The Diversity Prediction Theorem Times Three
  • 06: The Weighting Is the Hardest Part
  • 07: Foxes and Hedgehogs-Can I Be Diverse?
  • 08: Fermi's Barbers-Estimating and Predicting
  • 09: Problem Solving
  • 10: Diverse Perspectives
  • 11: Heuristics and the Adjacent Possible
  • 12: Diversity Trumps Ability
  • 13: Digging Holes and Splicing Genes
  • 14: Ability and Diversity
  • 15: Combining and Recombining Heuristics
  • 16: Beware of False Prophets-No Free Lunch
  • 17: Crowdsourcing and the Limits of Diversity
  • 18: Experimentation, Variation, and Six Sigma
  • 19: Diversity and Robustness
  • 20: Inescapable Benefits of Diversity
  • 21: The Historical Value of Diversity
  • 22: Homophily, Incentives, and Groupthink
  • 23: The Problem of Diverse Preferences
  • 24: The Team. The Team. The Team.
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Scott E. Page

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