Monday, 8 September 2014

Why your team should appoint a "meta-knowledge" champion - one person who's aware of everyone else's area of expertise

They reasoned that in the current study, giving one individual all of a group's metaknowledge gave this person a good shove into this state, so that they took steps to uncover the submerged information; even better, this person’s modelling of such behaviour likely sparked the same in return from their team-mates. Evaluating videos of the team discussions confirmed this analysis - members of teams with one central meta-knowledge individual asked more questions of each other about who knew what, and went on to incorporate and fuse information together more often, and this contributed to their better performance.
Note, the strategy of centralising meta-knowledge is not always advantageous. A single centralised focus didn't help teams in another condition, where each member received all relevant information (legal, R&D) about one product, such as the "Health-Conscious Adults" drink. By their nature, these members are already interconnecting types of knowledge, and performed highly with or without a catalyst figure.
Sharing of meta-knowledge matters most when knowledge is segmented by speciality - all too familiar to those of us who have worked in silo'd organisations, and inevitable for some types of high-level decision-making. In real life, the chasm between the knowledge possessed by different specialists is likely to be even deeper than in the simulated conditions of this study.
In an ideal world, of course everyone would have a complete and shared understanding of who knows what. But in practice, it seems advantageous (and more realistic) to aim to have at least one individual - not necessarily a leader - with a strong overview of this information. Such individuals naturally catalyse knowledge-seeking and sharing across the team, which is bound to be more productive than top-down attempts to build team-wide meta-awareness through data living/hiding on intranets or through time-consuming update meetings.




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Why is organic mentioned as being an environmentally friendly choice? There's considerable evidence that it isn't.

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A couple of quick examples from google:

It depends on the foodstuff but for meats especially there's evidence intensive farming may be better for some aspects of the environment (greenhouse gases, especially). I acknowledge that it's not clear-cut and quite controversial though.

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Isn't it because in their native language they already strongly associate certain multiple-choice situations with certain choices?
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I think that's why people are more rational with multiple-choice in a foreign language than in their native one.

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