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Introversion vs Extraversion
A contrast concerning patterns of sociability, assertiveness, and engagement, usually treated as a continuum in contemporary trait models
Organizational BehaviorManagement & Organizations
Inverse Conway Maneuver
A strategy of changing communication and collaboration arrangements to encourage a desired system structure
Organizational BehaviorManagement & Organizations
Loyalist vs Mercenary (Hiring)
A practitioner hiring metaphor contrasting attachment to a mission or group with an emphasis on compensation or career opportunity
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Loyalists vs Mercenaries
A practitioner contrast between attachment to a mission or group and emphasis on compensation or opportunity
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Organizational Ambidexterity (Exploit and Explore Simultaneously)
The capacity to sustain and improve existing operations while exploring new possibilities
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Organizational Debt
A metaphor for organizational compromises or inherited arrangements that create recurring costs as circumstances change
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Peter Principle
A principle associated with Laurence J
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Psychological Safety
A shared belief within a team that interpersonal risks such as asking questions, reporting mistakes, and raising concerns can be taken without humiliation or inappropriate punishment
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Pygmalion Effect
An expectancy effect in which beliefs about someone may influence their performance through changed treatment, feedback, or opportunities
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Radical Candor
Kim Scott’s framework for combining personal concern with clear, direct feedback
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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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Return on Norms
A practitioner metaphor for comparing the benefits and costs of shared behavioral expectations
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Role-Playing Model
A rehearsal technique in which participants enact specified roles to practice an interaction or examine assumptions about it
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Span of Control
The number of direct reports attached to a manager, considered alongside the work needed to coordinate, support, and lead them
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Standard Operating Procedure
A documented procedure for performing a recurring activity under specified conditions
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Thought Leader / Missionary vs Mercenary
A practitioner contrast between purpose-oriented and primarily transactional approaches to a venture
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Trust
Willingness to accept vulnerability based on expectations about another’s behavior
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Two-Minute Rule (Meetings)
An adaptation of David Allen’s GTD heuristic: when processing work, a needed action that is very brief may cost less to complete than to track and revisit
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Two-Pizza Teams (Amazon)
Amazon’s principle of keeping teams small and giving them focused, sustained ownership of a product or service
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Virtual Team
A team that coordinates across locations through communication technology
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Weekly 1–1s
A recurring individual conversation between a manager and colleague, often weekly, intended to surface concerns, support development, clarify decisions, and maintain a workable relationship.
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Zero Tolerance
A policy approach linking specified violations to predetermined consequences with limited discretion
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x Team
A team approach associated with Deborah Ancona and colleagues that combines purposeful external activity with coordinated internal execution
Organizational BehaviorMarriage & Partnership
Attachment Styles in Adult Relationships (Secure, Anxious, Avoidant, Disorganized)
Adult attachment concerns differences in expectations and behavior around closeness and availability, often measured along anxiety and avoidance dimensions
Attachment in PartnershipMarriage & Partnership
Rupture and Repair Cycle
Rupture and repair describes recognizing a disruption in connection or collaboration and attempting to address its impact through acknowledgment, responsibility, and changed behavior.
Attachment in PartnershipMarriage & Partnership
Erotic-Domestic Tension (The Mating in Captivity Paradox)
Perel’s framework explores tensions that can arise between domestic familiarity and the autonomy, curiosity, and novelty associated with desire
Esther Perel's Relational FrameworksMarriage & Partnership
Relational Ambivalence (Wanting Contradictory Things Simultaneously)
Relational ambivalence is the coexistence of positive and negative feelings or evaluations toward a relationship
Esther Perel's Relational FrameworksMarriage & Partnership
5:1 Magic Ratio (Positive to Negative Interactions)
Gottman’s 5:1 ratio summarizes a positive-to-negative balance associated with stable couples during conflict discussions
Gottman's Relationship ScienceMarriage & Partnership
Bids for Connection (Turning Toward vs. Away vs. Against)
Bids are small invitations for connection
Gottman's Relationship ScienceMarriage & Partnership
Four Horsemen of Relationship Apocalypse (Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, Stonewalling)
The four horsemen describe character attacks, contempt, blame-deflecting defensiveness, and disengagement during conflict
Gottman's Relationship ScienceMarriage & Partnership
Love Maps (Deep Knowledge of Partner's Inner World)
Love maps are a metaphor for a current, revisable understanding of a partner’s life, concerns, and preferences, developed through attention and conversation.
Gottman's Relationship ScienceMarriage & Partnership
Perpetual Problems vs. Solvable Problems
The distinction separates practical problems that can be settled from recurring differences that may require ongoing negotiation and accommodation.
Gottman's Relationship ScienceMarriage & Partnership
Sound Relationship House (Gottman's Architecture of Love)
The Sound Relationship House organizes seven areas of partnership functioning, supported by trust and commitment, as prompts for discussion and practical attention.
Gottman's Relationship ScienceMarriage & Partnership
Differentiation (Schnarch): Growing Up in Relationship
Schnarch’s differentiation framework concerns sustaining an individual sense of self while remaining capable of close relationship and thoughtful responsiveness.
Relationship DynamicsMarriage & Partnership
Emotional Bank Account (Covey/Gottman)
The emotional bank account represents how repeated conduct can strengthen or weaken trust and goodwill in a relationship.
Relationship DynamicsMathematics & Formal Models
A Simple Markov Model
A Markov model assumes that the current state contains the information from the past needed to determine the next-state distribution
Scott Page's Model ThinkingMathematics & Formal Models
Applications of Colonel Blotto
Colonel Blotto applications examine resource allocation across simultaneous contests when outcomes depend on relative allocations and an explicit payoff rule.
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Auctions
Auctions determine allocation and payment through bidding rules
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Basic Growth Model
A basic economic growth model tracks how output supports consumption and investment while depreciation reduces productive capital
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Behavioral Models-Model
Behavioral models formalize specific decision processes or preferences, such as reference dependence, present bias, or inequality concerns, and test their implications.
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Blotto and Competition
Blotto extensions examine how resource-allocation incentives change with unequal budgets, different contest values, timing, or information.
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Blotto_ No Best Strategy
Many Blotto settings require comparing allocations strategically rather than selecting one universally best pure allocation
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Blotto_ Troop Advantages
Blotto resource comparisons examine how unequal budgets change feasible allocations and resulting payoffs under specified contest rules.
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Cascading Failures in Networks
Cascading failures propagate when a disruption changes load, dependencies, or responses in ways that cause further failures.
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Categorical Models
Categorical models organize descriptions or predictions by group membership while allowing meaningful variation within groups.
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Cellular Automata
Cellular automata are discrete models in which local rules update cell states repeatedly, sometimes generating complex global patterns.
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Central Limit Theorem
The central limit theorem gives conditions under which centered and scaled sums or means approach a normal distribution as sample size grows.
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