What are the unexpected abilities needed to guide teams and projects to success?

ByNovartis AG

"Meeting wasting time of participants without creating anything too long" "Not an honest opinionGroup thinkingProject Teams engaged in ", etc. should be encountered by anyone who belongs to an organization such as a school or a company and has work experience in the group. Experiments were made to answer the question as to why such things would happen and what kind of ability it is to influence the superiority and inferiority of the team.

Why Some Teams Are Smarter Than Others - NYTimes.com
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It is natural for humans to have differences in abilities among individuals, but we have continued to study the problem of whether the same thing can be said to a group, that is, whether there is a capability difference between groups composed of multiple people Professor Anita Woolley of Business School of Carnegie Mellon University, Professor Thomas W. Malone of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) University Sloan Management School, Professor Christopher Chabris of Union University Psychology Department.

Three people conducted two experiments to clarify the difference in ability in team work. One is to divide 697 volunteers into groups of 2 to 5 people and have them perform various tasks involving logical analysis, brainstorming, cooperativeness, moral thinking, and record their scores. When conducting the above experiments on individuals rather than groups, it is common for individuals to have differences in abilities, but surprisingly the difference has also been born in groups. In other words, while there were clever groups, there were groups that were not.

ByNeil Cummings

We also found that the group that gave high scores had three characteristics. Common to the group which recorded the high score in the experiment was "" Not one but a few members participate in the discussion "" Only the expression of the face shown in the photograph discriminates emotion "" There are many women "about it.

However, in another experiment conducted by three people, we know that the ability to discriminate emotions only by facial expressions, that is, ability of reading is not the most important in team work. Reading is important for online video conferences where only the face is visible, it is not the most important in regular meetings.

ByWilliam McInnes

Even in the group found in the first experiment, in response to the creation of "capacity difference" just like individuals, three conducted experiments to have volunteers participating in the initial experiment receive an IQ test. As a result, it was found that the group with high IQ average does not necessarily record higher scores in the first experiment than the group with low IQ average. In other words, "Individual IQ level does not significantly affect team work".

Three people who conducted the experiments said, "What is necessary for the best team to leave a good result is not mind-set and IQ,"Theory of mindIt is "It is" It concluded. "Theory of the mind" is "the function of the mind who guesses the state, purpose, intention, knowledge, belief, intention, doubt etc. of others' mind", "reading mind" reading the mind from the action and action of the opponent Unlike "the level of basic cognition that is the source of sociality". In short, it is not "ability to predict emotion" but "close to empathic ability to appreciate others' feelings".

ByApionid

What is needed for the best team is not the person who is smart and the person who is good at reading, but the ability to sympathize thinking about the feelings of others. When the team that you are participating in is not doing well, you should check once the team whether the team has "mind theory".