What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team

Link: Google Article

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
• Figure out how to create psycological safety faster, better and in more prouctive ways

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