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How Companies Are Getting Collaboration Wrong
The researchers broke down problem-solving into two parts — gathering facts about a situation and devising solutions. Roughly 400 undergraduate…
Google is tackling the science of how to build excellent teams
Project Oxygen started out as an attempt by Google’s People and Innovation Lab (PiLab) to prove that managers don’t really matter. The internal team…
Why Big Teams Suck
In 1957, British naval historian and management satirist Northcote Parkinson painted a cynical picture of a typical committee: It starts with four or…
If Teams Are So Great, Why Do We Have So Much Trouble With Them?
In today’s world of business, we have come to consider teams as the default way for almost all work to be managed. However, given that engagement at…
Thomas Malone on Building Smarter Teams
What if you could measure the intelligence of a group? What if you could predict which committees, assigned to design a horse, would end up with a…
Inducing Peer Pressure to Promote Cooperation
Cooperation in a large society of self-interested individuals is notoriously difficult to achieve when the externality of one individual's action is…