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What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
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What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team

New Research Reveals Surprising Truths About Why Some Work Groups Thrive and Others Falter.



Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Eye Opening
  • Well Structured

Recommendation

What makes some teams successes and others failures? Why can team dynamics be either energizing or draining? This article describes Google’s quest for a formula to optimize teamwork. Charles Duhigg, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times, explains Google’s findings on its analysis of group dynamics. getAbstract recommends these insights to managers looking for methods to motivate teams, create a constructive working environment and improve group productivity.

Take-Aways

  • In times of global commerce, more and more work is happening in teams.
  • A Google project team set about using data analysis to find a formula for successful teamwork. 
  • Number-crunching showed that the demographic makeup of a group cannot predict team performance.

About the Author

Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times. He is the author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better, from which this article is adapted.


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