5 Things You Can Do To Build A Better Team

Find the compelling mission – and you will find common ground. This is relatively straightforward with a project team and may not be so obvious with, for example, a team of regional directors. And yet, the compelling mission is what teams align around when the going gets tough; it is the commitment that is more important than individual results. What you can do: Work with the team to articulate the team mission. For some teams, […]

How to Create Google’s Perfect Team

By Phillip Sandahl / 6 minutes of reading

You would expect Google to do the search for “what makes great teams?” better than most anyone. These masters of search and analysis were on a quest some years back with that question in mind. Google was motivated by research that shows that software engineers that work together in groups “tend to innovate faster, see mistakes more quickly and find better solutions to problems”. This references a New York Times article by Charles Duhigg, entitled,

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