07 Mar How to Build the Perfect Team, According to Google
Groups tend to innovate and catch mistakes faster, and find better solutions to problems. Employees have higher job satisfaction. Profitability increases.
If it’s a good team, that is.
Google (already measuring every aspect of their employees’ lives) assembled a team to, yes, study teams, and turn their findings into a scalable algorithm.
They found that the best teams were not the ones with the smartest and most talented people, but the ones with a climate of mutual respect, a “sense of confidence that the team will not embarrass, reject, or punish someone for speaking up”—also known as psychological safety. Read more here https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team.html.
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