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...andle problem]]”), and then what sorts of incentives work best for solving those kinds of problems (the “[[Glucksberg candle problem]]”). Enter Elton Glucksberg, who ran the [[candle problem]] with two groups, each incentivised differently.

...up gets through the agenda more quickly than expected and the call leader, who has been droning in a Jersey monotone for 47 minutes, says, “okay, we sti ...tive, you would think that would send the [[COO]] into orbit – but ''guess who sanctioned the call''.

For all the delinquent and remiss other who haven't judiciously updated their docs, it will allocate the risk of [[with

False assumption: that the people who get to the top necessarily deserve it. ...anagers who never face an existential crisis. Survivor bias: most of those who do aren't here to talk about it.

...[Citigroup v Brigade|Villebanque]], between the Tigris and the Euphrates — who, on a routine patrol of the wild [[Bretton Woods]] came across a ruined [[S

...e who are already overpaid for what they do tend not to quit, because they know are already onto a good thing. These staff ''may'' leave, but only to join ...r hire a less experienced replacement. Either way, you are getting someone who is paid at their own cost-value threshold.

...lium]]) in the [[Green Chapel]]) imposed on trainee [[ninja]]s (''gēnin'') who fail to follow standard etiquette, comportment and syntactical conventions

...ngs, how egregious such a piece of bluster is depends on the context: on ''who'' is saying it to ''whom'' and ''when''. ...of good arguments for whatever her position happens to be. A counterparty who means it will never tell you she is thinking about ending the relationship.

...anthropological record — Graeber was an anthropologist, so well placed to know — shows no evidence that barter ever happened at scale, at least not with Where trust does arise, those practical limitations of barter dissolve. Should there be no “double coin

...eory and this one applies it to workplace psychology. These are the people who came up with the idea of “[[high-reliability organisation]]s” which are ...e company. This is a convenient fiction to bolster the importance of those who control that hierarchy; it is nonetheless a conjuring trick — a kin to wh

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For sensitive types in HR who don’t like workplace conflict, natural attrition seems a smashing idea: k

...to be loosely based on Buchstein’s own wild-haired, fiery-tempered spouse) who, when repeatedly subjected to the clumsy amorous advances of quixotic param

Haddock is the fellow who at spring tide [[Rumpelheimer v Haddock|navigated his punt on the flooded C

...substantial point this documentary has to make. A subsequent participant, who still hasn’t understood it, intones (to cheering): ...ystem of political views held by that single voter; a vote for a candidate who doesn’t win is ignored altogether, and even a vote for the winner, does n

...part of the Keep of Salomoné, amongst the praetorian guard of ISDA ninjas, who are bound till death by the [[Swappist Oath]]. The Wording is, as you would

...g you ''don’t'' know, and ''can’t'' know, but believe you can ''as good as know'', just as long as you have enough data, clever enough [[algorithm]]s and a ...would be really super convenient if, just for one goddam moment, you could know them ''right now''.

...nguish a ''[[Relationship contract|relationship]]'' contract, being one of those architectural arrangements under which we set ourselves up so that we might Likewise, a transactional contract sets out tersely who should do what and by when. Once inked, it is a set of rules designed to wi

...flake]]s: von Hammerstein-Equord was “an undisguised opponent” of you-know-who. One of the good guys.</ref> had to say about his officer class:

...struggle for memetic survival rages — then possibilities open up for those who genuinely seek to move the negotiation on.