This is hidden brain.
I'm Shankar Vedantam.
We all know what it feels like to work on a great team.
People like and trust one another.
Teammates communicate with each other.
Meetings are crisp and effective.
At the end of the day, things just get done.
We've all been on bad teams, too.
Here, interminable meetings become a substitute for doing actual work.
People undermine and undercut one another.
Productivity is low and morale even lower.
There is something mysterious about great teams.
We know what they are when we see them.
But how exactly do they come together?
Is there a way to figure out the secret sauce of great teams and build teams based on this recipe?
Today we take a deep dive into the science of teamwork.
Well, explore one of the most common errors we make in constructing teams and what effective teams do in order to punch far above their weight.
How to build great teams this week on hidden brain.
There are times in our lives when we become lost in the things we do.
Time vanishes.