A tension filled team game. Culture building at a large theme park. These subjects might not seem related, but by playing one, we can empower the other. Listen as we discuss the tension filled group quest that is Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, and what lessons we can take from it to improve our day to day workplaces.

Topics covered: Why listening is essential to problem solving, how to discover motivations triggered by games, what Black-hat design is and how it impacts the experience, why Keep Talking and No one Explodes benefits from being an online remote team game, how one type of motivation can magnify the feeling of another, different types of gamification, how to apply feelings of urgency to a workplace without it backfiring, how to encourage empathy between departments or between tiers of a corporate hierarchy, how to facilitate both cooperation and competition, the perils of using extrinsic rewards and how to balance this with intrinsic desires.

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