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Knowledge Under Pressure
On Mental Models and Doing More Good
Field notes from what we’ve been up to, what we’ve been taking in, and what we are thinking about at The Emergency Mind Project.
If you have ideas or things you’d like to see — or if you want to help and get more involved — I’d love to hear from you: dan@emergencymind.com
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EP 67: Dan Dworkis, MD PhD, on Mental Models for Performance Under Pressure
A review of five critical mental models that help individuals, team,s and organizations perform under pressure.
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Plus/Delta: On Doing More Good.
Newsletter from Dr. Shannon McNamara, podcast guest on Episode 63 talking about how complex adaptive systems, debriefing strategies and open group explorations lead to systems improvement in elite teams. Love how Dr. McNamara boils it down to “Less bad + More good = Better” (and then deeply explains how complexity interacts with this).
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“Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.” — Marcus Aurelius. When we are working with a high-impact problem set, we need to separate the wheat from the chaff and devote energy to the most important decision. This leads to two interlinked…
