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Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 35, gaming group dynamics

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Once one understands the dynamics of a group, they can influence it from inside or outside of that group. Group dynamics often result in individuals following a bad path, simply because the rest of their group are doing it.

Notes:

  • This week I wrote a blog on why we should all be weary of group dynamics: https://techleader.pro/a/607-Beware-of-group-dynamics
  • In this podcast, I want to expand on that and look specifically at techniques that can be used to exploit groups.
  • Groups are exploitable, and moving a group as a unit is easier than moving individuals one-by-one.
  • Strong group cohesion makes it easier to manipulate.
  • Turning from the inside versus turning from the outside:
    • Inside: other insiders are more likely to listen, their guards are down.
    • Outside: criticize the group to put it into a defensive mode, provoke reactions to the desired topics.
    • Turning the head versus turning the feet:
      • Head: identify and influence leaders.
      • Feet: decouple them from group direction, if enough follow so will the leaders.
      • Chaos monkey mode.
      • This is social engineering.
      • Groups are weaker than we think.
      • What I am working on this week:
        • Making Apache Nutch run as a service on Linux.
        • Nutch woes in general: performance is poor, distributing processing via Hadoop is complicated, and that is not even documented in Nutch 2.x.
        • Media I am enjoying this week:
          • Foundation season 2.

            • Notes and subscription links are here: https://techleader.pro/a/608-Tech-Leader-Pro-podcast-2023-week-35,-gaming-group-dynamics

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