What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team

• project Aristotle

  • realized the who part of the team didnt matter after looking at ove 180 teams

  • started looking for group norms
    • Norms are the traditions, behavioral standards and unwritten rules that govern how we function when we gather

  • Understanding and influcing group norms was the key! The right norms could raise the groups collective intelligence

  • Two behaviors that all good teams generally shared
    • equality in distribution in conversational turn taking
    • had high average social sensitivity

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