Building World Class Teams

What’s the secret of building great teams? Google researchers decided to find out. They presumed that the ideal team would have a mix of varied skills and personalities. As they put it,

“We were pretty confident that we’d find the perfect mix of individual traits and skills necessary for a stellar team – take one Rhodes Scholar, two extroverts, one engineer who rocks at AngularJS, and a PhD.”

It turns out, though, that none of that was correct. The most important factor by far is that the team members feel psychologically safe to take risks and be vulnerable in front of each other. There are four other attributes too. Read the article—it’s short—to get the details. It’s very interesting and, if you’re a team leader, reports on some important and actionable research.

UPDATE: Added missing link.

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