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