Mental Model
Reorganization
A change to an organization’s structure or coordination arrangements intended to support different work or resolve a specific difficulty
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Cognitive Move
Reorient
Change the direction of your reasoning, working backward from the endpoint or imagining absence, to collapse a forest of options into a few necessities.
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Repair After Parental Rupture (Good Enough Parenting - Winnicott)
Repair after a parenting mistake means acknowledging harm, taking responsibility, listening, and rebuilding dependable interaction through action
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Repair Attempt Script (Gottman Method)
A protocol for de-escalating conflicts in real-time using 'repair attempts' — any statement or action that prevents negativity from spiraling out of control
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Repair Attempt Theory
John Gottman's research identified 'repair attempts' as the single most important factor predicting relationship success — more important than the severity or frequency of conflicts
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Repartition
Regroup your cases into new categories until membership in a group actually changes what you predict or do.
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Repeated or time-series measurement
Measure the same thing repeatedly over time so you can tell real change from normal fluctuation.
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Replace
The harshest of the three verdicts: the number misleads badly enough that adding companions will not rescue it, so you retire it and name a different measure that actually tracks the outcome before you leave the courtroom.
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Replicate, route, stop, or reopen
After the result, deliberately choose the next step: act, probe again, replicate, wait, or stop with a named trigger to reopen.
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Replication
Replication produces another instance of a pattern through a specified mechanism
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Replication Crisis
The replication crisis refers to concerns that many influential research claims have not held up consistently in new studies
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Replicator Dynamics
Replicator dynamics model how population shares change according to relative fitness
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Representation
Representations depict selected information in a form that can support particular operations and questions
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Representativeness Heuristic
Kahneman and Tversky's finding that people judge probability based on how well something REPRESENTS its category—how well a specific case matches the prototype of its category—rather than on statistical base rates
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Rerole
Reassign what functional job an entity is actually doing (gatekeeper, sensor, bottleneck, translator) instead of what its title says.
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Reroute
When part of a working setup is going badly, hand that one piece to a different person or tool and leave everything else alone.
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Resequence
Make the order of events explicit, because the same ingredients in a different sequence produce a different outcome.
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Resequence the steps
Reorder the process so learning, protection, or reversible action comes earlier.
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Reservation Price Setting
Your reservation price is the worst deal you'd accept before walking away—the point of indifference between accepting the deal and pursuing your best alternative
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Reserve
Pick this when the swings themselves are fine but nothing absorbs them. You add stored slack between the volatile input and whatever depends on it, so the downstream side never feels the shock. The reaction stays the same size; the buffer soaks it up.
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Reshape the response curve
Make the response proportional, staged, or diminishing instead of all-or-nothing.
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Residual-risk acceptance
Name out loud the danger that remains after your safeguards, and say you accept it. Without this, the floor keeps ratcheting until the whole activity is banned. It marks where protection stops and living resumes.
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Residuals
Subtract what you already expected, then plot only what is left over. Instead of asking how big the number is, you ask how far it sits above or below the prediction, so ordinary variation flattens out and the surprises stand up.