Great teams: exploring, engaging and breaking down the silos

Building great teams the article written in 2012 by Sandy Pentland, one of the 7 most powerful data scientist in the world, explores using data the patterns from great teams.

Successful teams share several defining characteristics:

1. Everyone on the team talks and listens in roughly equal measure, keeping contributions short and sweet.
2. Members face one another, and their conversations and gestures are energetic.
3. Members connect directly with one another—not just with the team leader.
4. Individual reasoning and talent contribute far less to team success than one might expect.
5. The best way to build a great team is not to select individuals for their smarts or accomplishments but to learn how they communicate and to shape and guide the team.
6. The most valuable form of communication is face-to-face.
7. The best-performing and most creative teams sought fresh perspectives constantly, from all other groups in (and some outside) the organization.
8. Successful teams, especially successful creative teams, oscillate between exploration for discovery and engagement for integration of the ideas gathered from outside sources.

Nowadays some of these ideas should be used inside organizations and inside "political parties". Why do we not try to breakdowm the silos?

photo: (*) Photosolde

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