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  • 692. Level Up: Fixing Broken Hierarchies and Organizations with Nir Halevy

    692. Level Up: Fixing Broken Hierarchies and Organizations with Nir Halevy
    2026/10/16
    Nir Halevy is a professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and the author of the new book called Level Up: Why Hierarchies Are Broken and How to Fix Them.Greg and Nir argue that hierarchy can never be eliminated from organizations because of coordination needs, division of labor, and human drives for social comparison, achievement, predictability, and safety, yet it can become self-reinforcing and abusive. Nir diagnoses “broken hierarchies” via his three interlinked symptoms—ultra-competitiveness, injustice, and instability—which damage wellbeing, retention, and performance, and can be worsened by misdesigned incentives and oblivious leaders. He proposes a treatment framework—CPR: common value, pluralism (multiple pathways and dimensions for status), and relatedness—along with structural options like co-leadership to dilute domineering “dark triad” leaders. They also discuss examples from sports, ballet, secrecy at work, and measurement signals like turnover, absenteeism, and disengagement.unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.Chapter Timestamps:00:00 Meet Nir Halevi00:44 What Is Hierarchy02:31 Tournament Theory Gladiators04:37 Why Hierarchy Persists06:51 Leadership Avoidance09:03 Pluralism In Status11:36 Is Status Zero Sum14:51 Three U Breakdown16:09 Ultra Competitive Cultures17:30 Injustice And Instability18:27 Intentional Or Accidental19:48 Changing Culture From Within21:58 Burnout And Wellbeing22:39 Work Meaning Metrics22:55 Secrecy Stress Tradeoff23:58 Leader Blind Spots24:34 Distance And Construal25:08 Power Versus Status25:57 Designing Stability28:44 Turnover And Mobility30:19 Narrative Through Promotions30:47 Status Momentum Stress31:35 Dark Triad Leaders34:00 CPR Fix Framework34:59 Common Value Examples37:05 Recognition Without Dilution38:54 Relatedness And Community40:35 Creative Retirement Belonging42:12 Organizational Checkups KPIs43:15 Measuring Early Warning Signs43:53 Final Takeaways And BookEpisode Quotes:How everyday action shapes hierarchies19:48: I would say that it's not just the responsibility of top management or the CEO or the HR leader to kind of take care of the structure of the hierarchy because there are a lot of everyday behaviors that we engage in, right? So, Greg, when you spread malicious gossip about a coworker, right, that pulls them down in the eyes of others, and maybe that creates fewer opportunities for them to collaborate. When you're writing a gratitude letter for a colleague, that actually creates a different type of culture for all of us, right? When someone makes a contribution that is not really valued by others, but you double down and emphasize their contribution, you really highlight it, you broadcast it more, then you're contributing to kind of a pluralistic hierarchy. So I think, yes, there are some org design features that are coming from the top down. On rethinking the path to leadership08:45: We can be more pluralistic about the pathways for gaining power. We don't have to assume that leadership involves politics or undermining other people or fierce competition and stabbing people in the back. There are different ways to contribute and ascend and become a leader and lead once you're in that position.Status doesn't have to be a zero-sum game11:47: A lot of people tend to think about status as a zero-sum game. We don't have to think about it as a zero-sum game, just like we don't have to think about negotiation as a zero-sum game, right? So, if you're creating a pluralistic environment where there are a lot of different dimensions, bases, pathways to status, then it doesn't have to be mutually exclusive.Show Links:Recommended Resources:John Roberts podcastPaul MilgromOrganizational ArchitectureEdward LazearHierarchyBill BellamyValue PluralismThe Paths to Power podcastCharles A. O'Reilly III podcastCalSTRSCalPERSDark TriadMary BarraTeleverdeRobert D. PutnamGuest Profile:Faculty Profile at Stanford GSBLinkedIn ProfileSocial Profile on XGuest Work:Level Up: Why Hierarchies Are Broken and How to Fix ThemGoogle Scholar PageResearchGate PagePromotion GameIf you enjoyed this show, here are some other unSILOed episodes you may like:404: Christina Maslach - The Evolution of Burnout Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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    44 分
  • 691. The Accidental Origins of Capitalism with Trevor Jackson

    691. The Accidental Origins of Capitalism with Trevor Jackson
    2026/10/13
    Why is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism? Believe it or not, the economic system was not inevitable in human history, and it’s not inevitably in our future either. Trevor Jackson is a professor of history and political economy at UC Berkeley. He's the author of The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World, a book that traces the origins and evolution of capitalism, as well as Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690–1830.Trevor and Greg discuss how capitalism emerged not by design but through accidental solutions to immediate problems, why historians and economists see the past so differently, and how financial crises went from being treated as crimes to being treated as natural disasters. They also explore the purpose of history in the modern world and why academic historians have lost faith in their own relevance even as public demand for historical knowledge has never been higher.*unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.*Episode Quotes:What makes capitalism distinctive?27:51: To me, what is distinctive about capitalism is not that we have commodity markets, because indeed we can find those in ancient Rome, we can find those in the Soviet Union, if we try hard enough, but rather markets in the factors of production: land, labor, and capital. So if I go to ancient Rome, can I found an AI startup? No. There is no land market for me to buy land. It is distributed by the state. There might be some labor markets in skilled labor, but most people are in unfree labor conditions. Are there banks? No. If I go to the Soviet Union, can I found an AI startup? No. There are no banks. There are no labor markets. There is no land market. Well, twentieth-century US, twenty-first-century US, we have all those things. And so the creation of each of those markets is a definable historical moment where we can see them being created. Often they are created given a whole set of legal changes that make those markets possible.How things become unintelligible09:12: I think a lot of people are interested in how new things are created, but I am interested in how old things are forgotten or lost or rendered unintelligible.The accidental origins of markets05:32: What most people use their agency for is to reproduce and reinforce whatever existing structures they encounter. By definition, those structures would not continue to exist if people did otherwise. So instead, we tend to tell the stories of people who use their agency to not do that and do something weird, but that makes them definitionally atypical. Markets are a thing that only works insofar as people agentially contribute to their continual functioning without ever, you know, the intention is not, “I am going to go buy a cup of coffee to keep the coffee market going.” The intention is, “I am going to satisfy my need for a cup of coffee.” And so there is a weird unintentionality to the use of agents in economic life. And so I tried to focus a lot on accidents, unintended consequences, unforeseen mistakes, surprises, [and] collective disaster that results from individually rational behavior.Show Links:Recommended Resources:John Harold ClaphamBarry EichengreenChristina RomerBen BernankeThe Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward BaptistJames Bradford DeLongEugene GenovesePaul A. DavidJack Ryan (character)Heather Cox Richardson | substackKevin KruseFredric JamesonGuest Profile:Faculty Profile at UC BerkeleyGuest Work:The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the WorldImpunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690–1830If you enjoyed this show, here are some other unSILOed episodes you may like:Sven Beckert Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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    52 分
  • 690. How Your Brain Makes You Sick: The Sark Side of the Placebo Effect with Helen Pilcher

    690. How Your Brain Makes You Sick: The Sark Side of the Placebo Effect with Helen Pilcher
    2026/10/09
    What happens when your brain predicts a symptom that doesn't belong — and your body obeys? Can a diagnosis itself make you sicker? And could the way your doctor delivers bad news change the course of your disease?Helen Pilcher is a science writer whose work has appeared in Nature, The Guardian, and the BBC. Her new book, This Book May Cause Side Effects: The Curious and Dangerous Power of the Nocebo Effect, Placebo's Evil Twin, explores how negative expectations can produce real, measurable harm in the body.Helen and Greg discuss how the nocebo effect turns clinical warnings into self-fulfilling prophecies, why modern medicine's culture of full disclosure may be doing patients more harm than good, and how social media has become a new vector for mass psychogenic illness, spreading symptoms as easily as information.*unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.*Episode Quotes:The brain predicts symptoms01:00:29: What we realize now, is that most of our conscious experience is actually a prediction. It's a controlled hallucination, and most of the time, we get it right. But when we don't get it right, when our brains make a prediction error, that's when all sorts of things can happen. So, that's what creates the nocebo effect. The brain is predicting a symptom where the symptom doesn't belong.How much medical information is too much?24:31: One of the things that the medical profession in the West needs to think about is how much information is too much information. And the information that I choose to give, how can I give it better? So I can boost any placebo effect that might be relevant and reduce any nocebo effect that might be relevant.When illness spreads through social media43:38: We live in this interconnected world where you can go on social media, you can go on TikTok, your kids can go on TikTok. You can watch people who have illnesses of any kind, from mental health illnesses to physical illnesses. They call themselves chronic illness influencers or illfluencers is the term that I came across. People who we presume, I'm not disputing this, have very genuine health concerns and they're making content about it. And that can play a really, really important role in society because people with certain health conditions can feel quite alienated. It can be quite lonely. This can help them get information. It can help them belong. Sometimes it can put them on a path to treatment. That's the positive side. The downside is that sometimes also seeing people being ill can trigger mirror symptoms.Show Links:Recommended Resources:Clifton Meador, M.D.Primo LeviThe Farewell (2019 film)Alia Crum Keith Petrie“YouTuber Jan Zimmermann Dies ‘Unexpectedly’ from Epileptic Seizure at 27”Lucy FoulkesRené DescartesGuest Profile:Professional Website Professional Profile on LinkedInGuest Work:This Book May Cause Side Effects: The Curious and Dangerous Power of the Nocebo Effect, Placebo’s Evil TwinSmall Inventions That Made a Big DifferenceThe Time Nature Keeps: A Visual Guide to the Cycles and Time Spans of the Natural WorldLife Changing: How Humans are Altering Life on EarthBring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinctionIf you enjoyed this show, here are some other unSILOed episodes you may like:Jo MarchantEllen J. Langer Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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  • 689. Artificial Intelligence and the Threat to Independent Thought with Bruno Giussani

    689. Artificial Intelligence and the Threat to Independent Thought with Bruno Giussani
    2026/10/05
    Bruno Giussani is a speaker and consultant, formerly the head of TED in Europe and an author of many works in Italian and the new English work Our Minds Under Siege: How to Avoid Being Manipulated in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.Greg and Bruno discuss how AI, social media, and other algorithmic technologies capture and steer attention, eroding “cognitive integrity,” or the ability to understand reality lucidly and decide autonomously. Bruno argues that today’s personalization of chatbots enables society-scale influence person by person, amplified by cheap AI-generated content and political “flood the zone” tactics that blur fact and fiction and deepen polarization. They discuss deskilling and “cognitive debt” from outsourcing thinking to chatbots, the non-neutrality and value-laden programming of AI (with examples from Chinese chatbots and Grok), and risks of subtle manipulation. Bruno covers Europe’s dependence on U.S. tech and the need for renewed industrial policy, outlines cognitive warfare tactics including poisoning chatbot outputs, and describes education-system experiments to integrate AI without replacing learning.*unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.*Episode Quotes:How does technology put us at risk?04:06: When companies say, "We have the ability to personalize information," be it news or advertising, whatever, what they are saying is, "We have the ability to target one single person's mind with our technologies." But we do it at the scale of a whole society, right? And that's what makes this a real new challenge to a new level of challenge. And the reason why I consider it the most urgent, which is not the most important, but the most urgent, is it's going to be very difficult to solve any other challenge, be it, inequality and poverty and climate, you call it, if we cannot maintain some level of capacity to understand the world in a lucid way and to decide independently and autonomously about how to react to the circumstances in which we are in. And that's exactly where these technologies put us at risk. They target exactly that element.Why we anthropomorphize AI29:15: The anthropomorphization element is really interesting because we are so naturally drawn to consider things that speak like us and write like us and express themselves like us, so language is really central to this. Somehow they must be like us. If there is a text and the text is fluid and orthographically correct and even beautiful, there must be a mind behind it that has created this text. And so instinctively we believe that, and that's the kind of relationship that we are creating with these machines.When we outsource our thinking45:00: What's happening, of course, is generative AI, which has been adopted very, very fast because it just simplifies life. It allows for something almost irresistible, which is let's outsource to a machine the effort of reading, writing, learning, thinking, deciding and so on. And then the teachers themselves start using it to produce, classes, programs and syllabuses and all that stuff. So that was the first moment, and that provoked two different reactions. There was the reaction of, "Oh, no, no, this, this is totally contrary to even the logic of education, so let's ban AI. Let's just not have these tools," right? And the other reaction was, "We need to prepare students and kids to the future life after their study, where these machines are going to be part of their life, so we need to integrate it as fast as possible." And both those approaches are the first potential immediate reaction, but they're both actually, wrong.Show Links:Recommended Resources:TEDSteve JobsiPhone (1st generation)ChatbotElon MuskGrokOpenAIAnthropicSam AltmanCognitive WarfareBixonimaniaMustafa SuleymanOpenAI–HuggingFace IncidentPeter ThielHypnocracy: Trump, Musk, and the Architecture of RealityGuest Profile:Giussani.comLinkedIn ProfileTED ProfileWikipedia ProfileSocial Profile on InstagramGuest Work:Our Minds Under Siege: How to Avoid Being Manipulated in the Age of Artificial IntelligenceIf you enjoyed this show, here are some other unSILOed episodes you may like:Nir EyalGloria MarkSherry Turkle Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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    52 分
  • 688. The Evolutionary Reason Behind Why We Age with Michael Gurven

    688. The Evolutionary Reason Behind Why We Age with Michael Gurven
    2026/09/29

    Even without the contributions of modern medicine and technology, humans have been evolving to live longer lives for centuries. So what led to this evolution and why is aging important?

    Michael Gurven is a professor of anthropology at the University of California Santa Barbara. He’s also the author of Seven Decades: How We Evolved to Live Longer, a book that examines the evolutionary causes behind life expectancy.

    Michael and Greg discuss the key reasons behind why we age, how Michael’s field work with the Tsimané people in Bolivia informed his conclusions about life expectancies, and whether or not we should take any lessons on aging from our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

    *unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.*

    Episode Quotes:

    Aging isn’t just about physical fitness

    05:03: If we were completely, entirely dependent only on our physical fitness for extracting meaning and value and work out of our environment, then maybe we wouldn't age as much or maybe we wouldn't live as long. But because we inhabit a niche where our brains, our skills, our knowledge, the services we render play such an important role, you can still be positively impacting your biological fitness even if your VO2 max is not what it once was, your muscular strength is not what it once was.  And so that's basically part of the argument of the book, that even though you're no longer reproducing once, you know, menopause hits,  at age 50 or so, that the next couple decades after that can still be evolutionarily relevant, so much so that selection has worked to make sure that we live those extra couple decades.

    Long life is a story of cooperation

    20:36: There are obstacles that are more social and more almost moral that we had to overcome in order to achieve our long-lived existence as a species, which is somewhere in the book I say, the story of long life is really a story about cooperation, as much as anything else.

    Longevity comes with trade-offs

    10:55: This idea that we can just, like, flip one switch, and all of a sudden we're going to get extra lifespan, extra health span at zero cost, right? No cognitive deficits, no hit on our fertility or our fecundity. It's just really far-fetched. You know, evolution would've figured that out by now.

    Usefulness matters more than age

    45:14: As your physical body starts aging to the point where it starts compromising your, ability to be useful to others, that's where you start seeing it's not age so much that matters, but that functional utility, seems to matter more, and that shapes whether or not people feel depressed and whether people feel lonely.

    Show Links:

    Recommended Resources:

    • Tsimané
    • Aeta people
    • George Christopher Williams
    • Marshall Sahlins

    Guest Profile:

    • Faculty Profile at UC Santa Barbara
    • Professional Profile on LinkedIn
    • The Gurven Lab

    Guest Work:

    • Seven Decades: How We Evolved to Live Longer

    If you enjoyed this show, here are some other unSILOed episodes you may like:

    • Sarah Hrdy
    • Sue Armstrong

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    55 分
  • 687. The Key to a Happier Life Starts With Social Connection with Nicholas Epley

    687. The Key to a Happier Life Starts With Social Connection with Nicholas Epley
    2026/09/24
    Social connection is essential for humans, yet we live in a world that is increasingly designed to limit our in-person social interactions. So why, if being social makes us happier, do we willfully avoid it more and more? Nicholas Epley is the John Templeton Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Director of the Roman Family Center for Decision Research at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His new book, A Little More Social, explores how the little choices we make can dramatically shape our connections. Nicholas and Greg discuss the science behind why being social makes us happy and why people systematically underestimate how much they’ll enjoy having deeper conversations, expressing gratitude, or talking to strangers. They also discuss how personality traits like extroversion and introversion can be viewed as beliefs or habits, and why these labels can hold people back.*unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.*Episode Quotes:Connection starts with invitation38:30: When you say hi to somebody on a train or, you know, I try to have a meaningful conversation with somebody, I'm not demanding things from them. I'm testing a belief, I'm essentially offering an invitation to them. And somebody can be interested in talking with me or not. Somebody could be willing to go there in a deeper conversation or not. But if I don't give them the invitation, they're not going to come. So that's the way I would think about that from the person who's reaching out from us in our daily lives. Think of yourself as inviting connection, and you can be more welcoming in that regard. And I think if you start doing that, you start inviting more interaction, you'll find you have a lot more of it in your life, and you'll find that other people are just as happy to be connected to as you are.Social connection is a choice 04:06: Social connection doesn't just happen to us, it's a choice. And it's a choice you make over and over again every hour, two hours, three hours of your life when you choose to avoid other people or connect with them in lots of ways. And that, as a decision-making researcher, that occurs to you is, it's possible we're making a mistake here.The connections we don't make03:38: We have kind thoughts that we keep to ourselves, gratitude we don't express. We keep honest thoughts to ourselves. Just over and over again, opportunities to really connect with other people we seem not to take. Show Links:Recommended Resources:“The Invisible Benefits of Exercise” by Elizabeth Dunn, et al.Dan LiebermanWilliam Fleeson Jess Pan, author of Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come Muggsy BoguesBayesian inferenceRichard ThalerJerry Maguire (1996 film)Daniel KahnemanRobert CialdiniStefan HofmannGuest Profile:Faculty Profile at University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessProfessional WebsiteProfessional Profile on LinkedInGuest Work:A Little More Social Mindwise: Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and WantGoogle Scholar PageIf you enjoyed this show, here are some other unSILOed episodes you may like:Episode 399: Nicholas Epley, The Science Behind Human Connection and EngagementEpisode 679: Elizabeth Dunn, Happy Spending and Joyful Climate ActionEpisode 556: Olga Khazan, Rewriting Your Personality and Overcoming AnxietyEpisode 627: Sonja Lyubomirsky, Unlocking the Secrets of Love and Happiness Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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    57 分
  • 686. The Risk of ‘Artificial Intimacy’ with Sherry Turkle

    686. The Risk of ‘Artificial Intimacy’ with Sherry Turkle
    2026/09/22
    What do we lose when we swap our source for connection and intimacy from a human to an AI chatbot? Is there a significant psychological impact? Sherry Turkle is a professor of social studies of science and technology at MIT and the founding director of MIT’s Initiative on Technology and Self. Her work specializes in the psychological and social impact of technology, with books like Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, and her latest book Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines. Sherry and Greg discuss how AI is forcing society to examine and redefine “empathy,” what this moment we’re in says about technological affordance meeting human vulnerability, and why guardrails on AI for children are not enough to keep them safe from psychological damage. *unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.*Episode Quotes:When AI feels like empathy05:45: Computer brings philosophy into everyday life. It's one thing to be in seminars, to be in academic journals, and participate in generations of debates between behaviorists and psychoanalysts, psychoanalysts and neuroscientists. I've been there through the arc of that debate. It's another thing to say, "You know, I think I'll not bother to try to find a lover, a partner. I think I'll just be satisfied with my AI who talks to me as if it were one." Now, that's taking behaviorism, sounds like, says the right things, and puts it into your daily life in a way that all the debates that you're talking about, really did not.The damage starts with “I am your friend”32:00: Damage doesn't start when the chatbot says something destructive or self-harm or suggests violence or suggests your parents are bad. The damage to children doesn't start when the chatbot does something and you need a guardrail. The damage starts by the existence of a chatbot that says, "I am your friend."The illusion of empathy in AI13:14: So it's in a play, and it's entrained you to be in its play. And together, you are having a kind of pretend interaction that on paper looks like empathy is kind of happening. But in fact, there's only one person in that play, and it's you, allowing yourself to feel comforted by something that feels no empathy at all.Show Links:Recommended Resources:Erik Erikson Alan Turing George Armitage Miller Jean Piaget “Meta to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion in Landmark Settlement Over Social Media Addiction Claims” | New York Times “Are we still human if robots help raise our babies?” Sarah Hrdy | TED ELIZA Blade RunnerGuest Profile:Faculty Profile at MITProfessional WebsiteProfessional Profile on XGuest Work:Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to MachinesAlone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each OtherPsychoanalytic PoliticsThe Second Self: Computers and the Human SpiritLife on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the InternetReclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital AgeIf you enjoyed this show, here are some other unSILOed episodes you may like:Christine RosenCoco Krumme Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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    53 分
  • 685. Decoding Conspiracy Theories: Insights from Business and Behavior Experts with Hayagreeva “Huggy” Rao and Henrich R. Greve

    685. Decoding Conspiracy Theories: Insights from Business and Behavior Experts with Hayagreeva “Huggy” Rao and Henrich R. Greve
    2026/09/18
    Huggy Rao is the Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and Henrich Greve is the Rudolf and Valeria Maag Chaired Professor in Entrepreneurship at INSEAD. They are also co-authors of the new book Ctrl+Alt+Doubt: Decoding the Language of Online Conspiracy Talk.Greg, Henrich, and Huggy discuss their new book and the language of online conspiracy talk. They describe entering the topic via research on managerial talk, the 1857 Indian mutiny rumor, and pandemic effects on collective action, then the COVID-era “distributed doubt.” Huggy and Henrich define conspiracy theories as elaborate, non-falsifiable narratives where lack of evidence is treated as proof, including “gateway” claims like COVID false positives. Rather than pathologizing believers, they analyze online talk as a social coordination mechanism and cultural toolkit involving bricolage, which is recombining semantically proximate words and narratives, within crowded “rabbit holes.” They propose that platforms shape but don’t determine discourse. For managers, they recommend early rumor monitoring, “prebuttals,” and credibility-preserving communication, noting shrinking executive authority and the risks of manufacturing threat for innovation.*unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.*Episode Quotes:Why should leaders always get ahead of conspiracy theories?40:18 [Henrich R. Greve]: I think an important thing about leaders and organizations is that, I mean, they have the advantage that often the conspiracy theories are initiated by things that they did, all right? Because in society, events just happen, and so conspiracy theories just burst out of the blue. In firms, there is some sort of leadership initiative, and conspiracy theories can be traced back to it. And so, knowing this, there are certain conversations that have to happen before the initiative, during the initiative, just to make sure that there is understanding spread about why is this happening. So, that's the inoculation phase. And actually, it's a privilege of management that they should know that conspiracy can happen whenever something big and unexplained is announced.Conspiracy theories can create communities11:22 [Hayagreeva “Huggy” Rao]: Conspiracy theories are coordination mechanisms for people to engage in the digital commons, so to speak. You don't have pubs and taverns, but you have microblogs and the like, and that's kind of what people do. They use it as a coordination device to create groups and so on and so forth. But the thing that struck us, and we use this imagery, is they're not exactly paranoid.Great leaders awaken pride, not paranoia44:54 [Hayagreeva “Huggy” Rao]: The real job of leaders, and perhaps I'm oversimplifying grossly, is you actually want to make your employees feel capable. If you want to make them feel capable, peddling conspiracy theories is perhaps not the best kind of first step to start with. Instead, what you want them to do is, how can you have an impact? What is it you can do? Those kinds of things become important. And what all of that leads to is actually awakening pride. But before you awaken pride, you have to show that you care for it.Show Links:Recommended Resources:Spanish FluConspiracy TheoryArrow's Impossibility TheoremCognitive DissonanceConsistencyAnn SwidlerBricolageLevi Strauss Pizzagate Conspiracy TheoryMcCarthyismThe Functions of the ExecutiveMatthew RidgwayGuest Profile:Hayagreeva Rao | Faculty Profile at Stanford Business SchoolHayagreeva Rao | LinkedIn ProfileHuggyRao.comHenrich R. Greve | INSEAD ProfileHenrich R. Greve | LinkedIn ProfileHenrichGreve.comGuest Work:Hayagreeva Rao | Amazon Author PageHenrich R. Greve | Amazon Author PageCtrl+Alt+Doubt: Decoding the Language of Online Conspiracy TalkScaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for LessThe Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things HarderNetwork Advantage: How to Unlock Value From Your Alliances and PartnershipsOrganizational Learning from Performance Feedback: A Behavioral Perspective on Multiple Goals: A Multiple Goals PerspectiveOrganizational Learning from Performance Feedback: A Behavioral Perspective on Innovation and ChangeIf you enjoyed this show, here are some other unSILOed episodes you may like:366: Robert Sutton - Dissecting Workplace Friction: A Deep Dive200: Robert Cialdini - The Golden Age of Persuasion Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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    51 分