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"...leads us to a central theme in social psychology: that social situations significantly control individual behaviour.
...This means that the best, and worst, of human nature, can often be brought out by manipulating some aspects of the social environment.
...In this situation, 70% of the subjects sided with the majority's
wrong judgement at least once, and many of those who didn't conform, still felt uncomfortable for not going along with the group."
From the page: "The Magic of 150
Your brain is hard wired to pay attention to about 150 people. Try to have a relationship with any more than that, and your life will turn to pure crap. Just ask the Military, Gore-Tex, or Krippendorf's tribe. They'll all tell you the same thing. One fifty is the way to go. They've known for hundreds of years that people work best in groups of 150 or less. Now it's your turn."
From the page: ""A healthy economy is only possible at the expense of unhealthy human beings"."
From the page: "Down with Hierarchies
In tonight's In Business, Peter Day talks to a revolutionary thinker in the world of British management along with some world wide luminaries in the working world about why organisations function badly, if at all.
Interviewees:
Gerard Fairtlough, Author, The Three Ways of Getting Things Done: Hierarchy, Heterarchy and Responsible Autonomy in Organizations "
The Following Number Is Not Pi
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