I wanted to see whether this extreme example of a team effort could tell us anything about the workplace.
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From the biggest ‘wicked’ problems on down, finding solutions to challenges depends on working together collaboratively. Students think they’re good at this, but they aren’t. Here’s what could help.
A group of researchers figured out which NBA teams featured the most egotistical players, and then tracked their performances over the course of a season.
Years of research into how humans work best together yield lessons useful for designing robots to interact with people.
The importance of the team is fundamental in sport – and in business. A look at how some over-achieving squads performed in the recent World Cup can provide a valuable lesson for business leaders.
According to a management scholar, a team’s mindset and structure – not its stars – will often determine its success.
Does sport really improve young people’s development?
Fuelling direct competition between talented colleagues can backfire.
Egg roulette, terrible passing stats and the odd pizza. The psychology that builds success.
Rudeness causes medical teams to perform worse, and ultimately this could have huge costs for patients.
Over the past few months, the sports world has featured plenty of news about enmity and spite among members of some of the most successful teams in sporting history. In the recently completed Formula One…
When your staff bicker and compete, your initial response should be to remind them they’re part of the same team and encourage them to be friendly, right? Not necessarily; we’re now realising that a level…
We evolutionary biologists over-enthuse at times about the competitive nature of selection. Observing animals in the wild often compels one to agree with the 17th-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes…
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