reading-notes

What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team

today’s most valuable firms have come to realize that analyzing and improving individual workers ­— a practice known as ‘‘employee performance optimization’’ — isn’t enough. As commerce becomes increasingly global and complex, the bulk of modern work is more and more team-based.

Group norms:are the traditions, behavioral standards and unwritten rules that govern how we function when we gather.

Team A is composed of people who are all exceptionally smart and successful.