I haven't been able to stop talking about an article from this Sunday's New York Times, "What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team." We in the legal profession are generally not as adept at working in teams as the Googles of the world, so I thought this article might help CLOs and other in-house legal managers (in addition to law firms!).
It seems that in Google's data-driven quest to find the secret sauce of high-performing teams, they stumbled on the realization that the best teams are emotionally connected to one another and are able to read eachother's social cues with as much dexterity as spreadsheets. In addition, high-performing teams allow each member equal time to speak and present ideas rather than favoring one or two experts or leaders. Many of us might have guessed that this would be the case, but luckily we have Google to pour through lots and lots of data to verify this hunch.
What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
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