Google studied 180 of its teams to find what made the best ones click, expecting talent or structure but found the factor that beat everything was psychological safety: safety to admit a mistake
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Most people assume a good team is mostly a casting problem. Find the smartest engineer, the steady operator, the natural leader, mix them in roughly the right ratio, and the work takes care of itself. Talent in, performance out.
Google decided to check. Over roughly two years they studied 180 of their own teams, ran more than 35 statistical models on hundreds of variables, and waited to see which combination of people won. What came back was perhaps suprising; the thing that mattered most was no
Google decided to check. Over roughly two years they studied 180 of their own teams, ran more than 35 statistical models on hundreds of variables, and waited to see which combination of people won. What came back was perhaps suprising; the thing that mattered most was no
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