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The hidden factor [videorecording (DVD)] : why thinking differently is your greatest asset / Scott E. Page.

by Page, Scott E.

Teaching Company, 2012.

DVD 658.4036 P133h

Thought and thinking.

Group problem solving.

Diversity in the workplace.

Teams in the workplace -- Management.

Success in business.

Great courses (DVD). Professional.

Great courses (DVD)

Alternate title:

Great Courses. The hidden factor [videorecording (DVD)] : why thinking differently is your greatest asset

[videorecording (DVD)] :

4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 178 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Course no. 5133.

"24 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.

Disc 1. Individual diversity and collective performance -- Why now? The rise of diversity -- Diversity squared -- The wisdom of crowds -- The diversity prediction theorem times three -- The weighting is the hardest part -- Disc 2. Foxes and hedgehogs-- can I be diverse? -- Fermi's barbers-- estimating and predicting -- Problem solving -- Diverse perspective -- Heuristics and the adjacent possible -- Diversity trumps ability -- Disc 3. Digging holes and splicing genes -- Ability and diversity -- Combining and recombining heuristics -- Beware of false prophets-- no free lunch -- Crowdsourcing and the limits of diversity -- Experimentation, variation, and six sigma -- Disc 4. Diversity and robustness -- Inescapable benefits of diversity -- The historical value of diversity -- Homophily, incentives, and groupthink -- The problem of diverse preferences -- The team, the team, the team.

Lecturer: Professor Scott E. Page, University of Michigan.

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