Concepts
The irreducible epistemic atoms underlying the curriculum. 4,828 atoms across 8 types
Perception of time remaining in life fundamentally shapes…
Perception of time remaining in life fundamentally shapes emotional motivation and behavior.
Team performance correlates weakly with average individual…
Team performance correlates weakly with average individual intelligence and strongly with interaction patterns
Shared mental models among group members determine what…
Shared mental models among group members determine what the group perceives, how it interprets, and what actions it considers
Task conflict improves team performance only…
Task conflict improves team decisions only when psychological safety is high
Team performance is primarily determined by conditions set
Team performance is primarily determined by pre-conditions rather than real-time management
An organization's communication structure determines…
An organization's communication structure determines the structure of systems it produces
Organizational culture exists at three disconnected levels
artifacts, espoused beliefs, and basic assumptions
Different functions develop different schemas as adaptive…
Different functions develop different schemas as adaptive responses to their environments
Most organizational outcomes are products of system design…
Most organizational outcomes are products of system design, not individual effort
Every organizational system creates winners…
Every organizational system creates beneficiaries and those disadvantaged
Common knowledge enables coordination without communication…
Common knowledge enables coordination without communication
Groups exhibit cognitive biases that are distinct…
Groups exhibit emergent cognitive biases not reducible to individual biases
Collective error equals average individual error minus…
Collective error equals average individual error minus prediction diversity
Physical distance exponentially reduces communication…
Physical distance exponentially reduces communication frequency
Descriptive norms (what people actually do) are more
Descriptive norms are more powerful behavioral drivers than injunctive norms
Organizations become increasingly homogeneous through
Organizations homogenize through attraction-selection-attrition cycles
Organizational systems exhibit homeostasis—deploying
Organizational systems exhibit homeostasis against change
Authority can mandate compliance but cannot mandate
Authority can mandate compliance but not commitment
Psychological safety—the perception that interpersonal risks
Psychological safety is a precondition for team learning
Consciousness is inherently intentional — it is always…
Consciousness is inherently intentional — it is always directed toward an object and never exists as contentless awareness.
Human existence has four permanent structural features
death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness.
Human values are incommensurable—they cannot be measured…
Human values are incommensurable — they cannot be measured on a single universal scale.
Human lives unfold over time, requiring temporal integration
Human lives unfold over time, requiring temporal integration of past, present, and future into a coherent whole.
Narrative framing of identical events produces measurably…
Narrative framing of identical events produces measurably different psychological and behavioral outcomes.