(This is a short note about something I found useful in my role as a manager and coach at 9LivesData.)
Project Aristotle was a research project conducted by Google. The goal of the project was to find what attributes of a team contributed the most to it’s effectiveness.
The project found that the key factors of team effectiveness are:
- Psychological safety
- Dependability
- Structure & clarity
- Meaning of work
- Impact of work
More information:
-
New York Times “What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team”
- “Google’s intense data collection and number crunching have led it to the conclusions that [in] the best teams, members listen to one another and show sensitivity to feelings and needs“
- Amy Edmondson TEDx talk “Building a psychologically safe workplace”
- psychological safety is needed if we have uncertainty and interdependence
- frame the work as a learning problem, not an execution problem
- Anita Woolley on Collective Intelligence in Human Groups
- Paweł Brodziński‘s lightning talk about collective intelligence
