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Charlotte Blank - The Science of Motivation
Charlotte Blank - The Science of Motivation
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Length:
36 minutes
Released:
Aug 12, 2021
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Podcast episode
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Tune in to hear:- What does Charlotte’s day to day role as a Chief Behavioral Officer look like?- Has the science of motivating employees shifted a great deal since The Great Depression or do other cultural or economic factors play into people’s loyalty to a particular company?- How accurately can people assess what motivates them to work?- What wrong assumptions do people routinely make about what motivates human behavior?- What is a simple randomized control trial (RCT) that a business could run without hiring 3rd party expertise?- What is Charlotte’s favorite RCT that she has overseen in her career?- Are their parts of human behavior that defy scientific examination?- What are some of the lessons we can learn from the “replication crisis?”www.peoplescience.comhttps://twitter.com/CharlotteBlankCompliance Code: 2237-OAS-8/9/2021
Released:
Aug 12, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Humankind's Greatest GIft Is Also Its Greatest Liability: If bees organize by innate mandate and chimps through tight-knit social interactions, the miracle of human ascendance in the animal kingdom owes to a penchant for behaving in accordance with social narratives. To put it bluntly, we act as if the stories we make up are real. As Harari writes in the magisterial Sapiens, “As far as we know, only Sapiens can talk about entire kinds of entities that they have never seen, touched or smelled.” A monkey can say, “There is a caribou by the river” but could never communicate that, “The caribou by the river is the spiritual guardian of our city.” This ability to communicate about the unreal allows us to create all manner of social structures that help bring about predictable human behavior and that reliably breed trust. The State of Alabama, the Catholic church, the Constitution of the United States of America, the inalienable civil rights of man: none of these things are “real” in the by Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby