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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I read that article as well .. To me,
this section stood out:<br>
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<i>"What Project Aristotle has taught people within Google is that
no one wants to put on a ‘‘work face’’ when they get to the
office. No one wants to leave part of their personality and
inner life at home. But to be fully present at work, to feel
‘‘psychologically safe,’’ we must know that we can be free
enough, sometimes, to share the things that scare us without
fear of recriminations. We must be able to talk about what is
messy or sad, to have hard conversations with colleagues who are
driving us crazy. We can’t be focused just on efficiency"</i><br>
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On 02/26/2016 12:20 PM, Kevin Smith wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Forwarding this to a wider list, since I think it's
of interest to anyone who works with teams.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:04 PM,
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<div>It's a pretty long article, so for those who are
short on time, here is my very very abbreviated tl;dr:<br>
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<div>Google did a bunch of research to try go figure out
why some teams are effective and others are not. <br>
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"First, on the good teams, members spoke in roughly the same
proportion, a phenomenon the researchers referred to as
'equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking.' "
Note that there are a number of styles to achieve this,
including talking over each other, but fairly and with
consent. <br>
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"Second, the good teams all had high ‘‘average social
sensitivity’’ — a fancy way of saying they were skilled at
intuiting how others felt based on their tone of voice,
their expressions and other nonverbal cues."<br>
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"But Google’s data indicated that psychological safety, more
than anything else, was critical to making a team work."
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