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Identity & Self-Concept

Identity Foreclosure (Premature Commitment to an Identity)

In Marcia's identity-status framework, foreclosure refers to commitment without prior exploration as defined in the relevant assessment

Identity Formation

Identity & Self-Concept

Narrative Identity (McAdams): The Story You Tell About Yourself

Narrative identity is an evolving life story that connects reconstructed past, present concerns, and imagined future

Identity Formation

Identity & Self-Concept

Possible Selves (Markus & Nurius)

Possible selves are representations of who a person might become, including hoped-for, expected, and feared selves

Identity Formation

Information & Epistemology

Channel Capacity (Bandwidth Limits)

Channel capacity is the maximum reliable information rate for a specified communication-channel model under its constraints

Information Theory

Information & Epistemology

Error Correction Codes (Detecting and Fixing Errors)

Error-correcting codes add structured redundancy that permits recovery from specified patterns of corruption

Information Theory

Information & Epistemology

Kolmogorov Complexity (Minimum Description Length)

Kolmogorov complexity measures the shortest generating program for an object on a specified universal machine and is uncomputable in general

Information Theory

Information & Epistemology

Lossy vs Lossless Compression

Lossless compression preserves exact recoverability of its input

Information Theory

Information & Epistemology

Mutual Information (Shared Knowledge Between Variables)

Mutual information measures statistical dependence between variables, including nonlinear dependence

Information Theory

Information & Epistemology

Redundancy in Communication

Redundancy supplies overlapping information that can improve resilience to specified loss or error

Information Theory

Information & Epistemology

Shannon's Information Theory (Bits, Bandwidth, Signal-to-Noise)

Shannon's framework quantifies uncertainty, coding, and reliable transmission for probabilistic sources and channels under specified constraints

Information Theory

Management & Organizations

Baseball Card System (for People)

Dalio's Baseball Cards summarize assessed strengths, weaknesses, and supporting observations to inform collaboration and role decisions

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Be a hyperrealist.

Dalio's hyperrealism combines ambition with evidence-responsive assessment of current conditions, constraints, and possibilities

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Be radically open-minded and radically transparent.

Ray Dalio’s paired principles encourage serious consideration of contrary views and visibility into relevant reasoning and information

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Believability-Weighted Decision Making

Ray Dalio’s method for giving more influence to judgments from people with relevant demonstrated competence and explainable reasoning

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Diagnose problems to get at their root causes.

A principle of investigating the mechanisms and contributing conditions behind a problem before choosing a lasting response

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Dot Collector (Real-Time Feedback)

A feedback tool associated with Ray Dalio’s management system that supports timely observations and multidimensional ratings

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Evolving is life’s greatest accomplishment and its greatest reward.

Ray Dalio’s philosophical view that learning and adaptation can be a central source of accomplishment and satisfaction

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Five-Step Process (Goals → Problems → Diagnosis → Design → Execution)

Ray Dalio’s loop of goals, problems, diagnosis, design, and execution

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Getting In Sync (Alignment Process)

A process of checking that people understand the relevant goal, reasoning, constraints, and expected actions

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Have clear goals.

Clarify the outcome or question that should guide an effort, along with relevant constraints and priorities

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Higher-Level Thinking (Watching Yourself from Above)

A metaphor for briefly examining how you are approaching a task and considering whether to change that approach

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Idea Meritocracy

A decision-making ideal in which ideas are evaluated through relevant evidence and reasoning rather than status alone

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Identify and don’t tolerate problems.

A practical principle that pairs honest recognition of a problem with a deliberate response

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Look at the machine from the higher level.

A metaphor for examining the larger process that produces repeated outcomes, including goals, handoffs, resources, decisions, and feedback

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Look to nature to learn how reality works.

A practitioner invitation to study natural mechanisms for questions and possible analogies

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Machine Analogy (Organization as Machine)

A metaphor that represents an organization through its arrangements, participants, resources, work, and outcomes

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Own your outcomes.

A practical invitation to examine your contribution to a result and choose an available response

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Pain + Reflection = Progress.

A practitioner slogan suggesting that reflection on an uncomfortable result can support a useful change

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Pain Button (Emotional Signal)

An informal metaphor for treating a strong emotional reaction as a possible prompt for clarification or reflection

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Radical Transparency

Ray Dalio’s organizational principle of extensive openness about information, reasoning, and mistakes

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Shapers (Personality Archetype)

Dalio’s practitioner label for people who combine an ambitious vision with the ability to organize and persist in bringing it into reality

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Truth—or, more precisely, an accurate understanding of reality—is the essential foundation for any good outcome.

A principle of keeping decision-relevant beliefs responsive to evidence and separate from wishes

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Understand nature’s practical lessons.

A practitioner invitation to reflect on natural processes such as variation and adaptation when considering a human problem

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Weigh second- and third-order consequences.

Consider effects produced by an action’s initial effects, including how people may respond and what conditions may change

Dalio's Principles

Management & Organizations

Commander's Intent

A military concept that communicates purpose and a desired end state so subordinates can exercise initiative within the commander’s intent

Organizational Behavior

Management & Organizations

Commandos vs Infantry vs Police

Robert X

Organizational Behavior

Management & Organizations

Communication Overhead

The effort needed to exchange information, align decisions, onboard participants, and coordinate dependent work

Organizational Behavior

Management & Organizations

Consequence vs Conviction

A two-axis decision and delegation heuristic: consider the consequences of being wrong separately from confidence in a preferred answer

Organizational Behavior

Management & Organizations

Drexler-Sibbet Team Performance Model

A team-development framework by Allan Drexler and David Sibbet that describes seven areas from orientation through renewal

Organizational Behavior

Management & Organizations

Dunbar's Layers in Organizations (Scaling Teams)

An organizational application of Dunbar’s proposed layers of social relationships

Organizational Behavior

Management & Organizations

Forcing Function

A design constraint that prevents a specified action until a necessary condition is met, or prevents an invalid sequence

Organizational Behavior

Management & Organizations

Founder Mode vs Manager Mode

Paul Graham’s proposed distinction between direct founder involvement and a more compartmentalized style of delegation as companies grow

Organizational Behavior

Management & Organizations

Generalist vs Specialist

A comparison between breadth across tasks or domains and depth within a more focused area

Organizational Behavior

Management & Organizations

Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset

A distinction in Carol Dweck’s research between viewing an ability as developable and viewing it as relatively fixed

Organizational Behavior

Management & Organizations

Hersey-Blanchard Model (Situational Leadership)

A leadership framework associated with Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard that varies task direction and relational support according to a person’s needs for a particular task

Organizational Behavior

Management & Organizations

High Reliability Organizations (HROs)

A research tradition examining how organizations sustain reliable performance in demanding environments with serious failure consequences

Organizational Behavior

Management & Organizations

High-context vs Low-context Culture

Edward T

Organizational Behavior

Management & Organizations

IQ vs EQ

A comparison between measured cognitive abilities and constructs concerning emotional information or competencies

Organizational Behavior

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