31. Coping with diversity in the world of Management

Activity

Start with watching the TED speech of Daniel Simons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Il_D3Xt9W0 Links to an external site.

Although this is not directly related to the managerial questions it still makes sense to realise what this can mean for management but before making that step go on the internet and look for some optical illusions in general and then the challenge will be to find optical illusions in the field of management: can you find them? And what do they tell you.

This will be a good preparation to start looking at the next TED speech of Tom Wujec, which is much more related to the field of Management.

https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_on_3_ways_the_brain_creates_meaning?language=en Links to an external site.

Introduction

Dan Simons explores why we see the world, as it ISN'T. His research explores the ways in which our beliefs and intuitions about the workings of our own minds are often mistaken and why that matters. He is best known for his experiments revealing striking failures of perception and the limits of visual awareness.

Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from TEDU, he asks: How can we best engage our brains to help us better understand big ideas?