Why Some Teams Are Smarter Than Others
January 17, 2015 •
LinkInstead, the smartest teams were distinguished by three characteristics.
First, their members contributed more equally to the team’s discussions…
Second, their members scored higher on a test … which measures how well people can read complex emotional states…
Finally, teams with more women outperformed teams with more men … it was not “diversity” (having equal numbers of men and women) that mattered … but simply having more women … explained by the fact that women, on average, were better at “mindreading” than men.