Links: 2-3-2021

What complexity science says about what makes a winning team | Aeon Essays
Quote: "These issues – the importance of synergistic interactions, how strategies and individual attributes combine to produce team performance, how individuals coordinate in space and time to become mesmerising as a whole, and what role the leadership and larger organisational and cultural environment play in bringing out our best – are not just questions for basketball analysts and sociologists studying the Manhattan Project. They are in fact key questions for all biological systems, as all biological systems – whether groups of neurons or animal societies – are composed of interacting parts that collectively discover solutions to environmental or internal challenges. And complexity science, replete with nuanced concepts and rigorous methods, offers a quantitative lens through which to study them." That quote and the McNamara fallacy and the reference to Jerry Muller’s book.
(categories: performance metrics productivity team management culture )

Links: 2-2-2021

Tim Cook May Have Just Ended Facebook | Inc.com
Quote: "We believe that ethical technology is technology that works for you," said Cook. "It’s technology that helps you sleep, not keeps you up. It tells you when you’ve had enough. It gives you space to create or draw or write or learn, not refresh just one more time."
(categories: apple facebook ethics culture privacy )