How to Signal to Your Audience

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Signaling becomes highly important within an organization. What I advise always my clients when they want to bring a new behavior or especially a new value, is that they should always explain what it means in concrete terms. So for example, not we care about the long term, but we careAbout the long term which means that we will never take legalities, categories, we will never invest in this way. We will always keep these results, something like this. Then the second step is that they put it as a requirement for any kind of bonus, which means you should always say your bonus depends one on business objectives and two on not crossing any values boundaries.

Why is hard work a form of laziness? Why should we be wary of short-term success? How can imagining parallel worlds help us make better decisions? Author, management advisor, and researcher Luca Dellanna joins us to discuss these questions and more!

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Ergodicity: survival is king
Why sample size matters
The two types of competitors
Teaching by signaling
The parallel worlds approach to decision-making
Racing to the bottom
Why working hard can be a form of laziness
The three things managers should prioritize
Why desiring change isn’t enough
Fighting avoidance with actionable small steps
“Mixed values produce mixed results”
Thinking by writing
What Luca has learned from living in multiple countries
Luca as Emperor of the World
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Books Mentioned:

Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder; by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What Works on Wall Street; by Jim O'Shaughnessy
Ergodicity: Definition, Examples, And Implications, As Simple As Possible; by Luca Dellanna
The Control Heuristic: The Nature of Human Behavior; by Luca Dellanna
100 Truths You Will Learn Too Late; by Luca Dellanna
Tao Te Ching; by Lao Tzu