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This is a heck of a paper & summary graph Who makes the best manager in a lab experiment? People who volunteer to lead do worse than a leader picked by lottery. Intelligence helps, but a game of assigning workers to tasks is more predictive. Race, gender & age aren't predictive https://t.co/cLSbRkywcB

Rory Sutherland on why group decision making is often worse than personal judgement https://t.co/Gj6CRLLF40

Harvard study shows we can measure leadership skills by seeing how folks manage GPT-4o simulated people AI assessments strongly correlate (r=0.81) with human team assessments. Effective leaders ask questions & do conversational turn-taking and have fluid & social intelligence https://t.co/R9M6Q0xlz0

Langflow is the best tool I've found for building AI agents. Full stop. If you are into agents, here are the things that make Langflow awesome: 1. Huge list of reusable components 2. Different templates to get things started 3. Agent-s... See more

My anecdotal evidence generally seems to support the idea that group sizes will usually plateau at a number lower than 150 participants. This comes from 20 years of doing facilitation both on and offline, running several software companies, and running various forums at America Online. In particular, many online communities provide good evidence fo... See more

New study has released personality profiles of 263 occupations. Short thread of the occupations that are the most extreme with respect to each of the five personality dimension (I will mention only occupations with a sample of at least 100). https://t.co/uyRKsx01LL

Years ago, @heyalexfriedman introduced me to one of my favorite leadership / management frameworks. I can't find who originally created it, but I've referred to it as the "autonomy pyramid" for years. I think about it as I'm managing folks, hiring, all that good stuff. Here's how it works: There are 5 levels to the pyra... See more