The secret ingredient that makes some teams better than others
Culture defines any business, but it’s one of the hardest things to manage. In this extract from her new TED Book, Margaret Heffernan lays out the…
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…
Why Do We Need Self-Organising Teams?
“The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organising teams”, the Agile Manifesto announces. This raises a few questions:…
Understanding the group dynamics and success of teams
Tackling complex problems often requires coordinated group effort and can consume significant resources, yet our understanding of how teams form and…
Reality Commons MIT human dynamics lab
Cell phones have become an important platform for the understanding of social dynamics and influence, because of their pervasiveness, sensing…
Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS » Most Significant Change (MSC)
In brief: The most significant change (MSC) technique is a means of “monitoring without indicators” (but can also be used in evaluations)
Jack Ricchiuto
Jack Ricchiuto is best known across the US and globally for his experience as a writer engaged in shifting conversations to new narratives.