Re:Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself
by akvadrako on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @11:32AM
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I don't have much experience with this, but I find it a very important topic. My opinion is that there are so many different aspects to teamwork and social cognitive biases are so huge, it's an intractable problem to do on an individual level.
The only thing we know matters is the team does well or not. So I suggest trying different methods of building/running a team, and let them go. See which teams succeed and try to copy that success or give them more power.
To give some flavor to my idea - maybe the level of helpfulness you should ideally give is very low. Perhaps it enables weak members to suck up lots of time. We just don't have good data in this area.
The only thing we know matters is the team does well or not. So I suggest trying different methods of building/running a team, and let them go. See which teams succeed and try to copy that success or give them more power.
To give some flavor to my idea - maybe the level of helpfulness you should ideally give is very low. Perhaps it enables weak members to suck up lots of time. We just don't have good data in this area.