Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 35, gaming group dynamics

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