The document discusses research on team performance and intelligence. It finds that average individual intelligence is not a strong predictor of group performance, but that social and emotional intelligence factors like equal participation, social sensitivity, and diversity are more important. The document also summarizes Google's Project Aristotle research which found that psychological safety, dependability, structure and meaning were keys to high-performing teams rather than a focus on selecting "superstar" individuals. It provides resources on moving from a "pecking order" model to one that leverages everyone's contributions.

1. The Super
Chicken Farm
No one was safe anymore...

2. Once upon a time...

3. More eggs?

4. Average chickens

5. Super Chickens

6. “That’s my company...”
http://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_heffernan_why_it_s_time_to_forget_the_pecking_order_at_work

7. Dr. Anita Williams Woolley
Organizational Behavior and Theory
Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, USA
“Working alone...individual intelligence
was a significant predictor of
performance on the task
...
Done by groups, however, the average
individual intelligence of the group
members was NOT a significant
predictor of group performance”

8. 1:
Equal speak
time

9. 2:
High Social
Sensitivity
(Emotional Intelligence)

10. Emotion?
Jealous
Panicked
Arrogant
HatefulPanicked
Reading the mind in the eye: http://socialintelligence.labinthewild.org/mite/

11. 3:
More Women

12. “What makes one team
smarter than another?”
Links: Short Video | Long video | Article | Full Study

13. Google: Project Aristotle
Emotional
Intelligence

14. Google: Project Aristotle
“Who is on a team matters less than
how the team members interact,
structure their work,
and view their contributions”
Full research: https://rework.withgoogle.com/blog/five-keys-to-a-successful-google-team/

15. What can I do in practice?
● Emotional intelligence
○ Hiring for EI
○ Active Listening
○ Mindfulness
○ Empathy
● No superstars
● Increase safety
○ Facilitate
○ Retrospectives
○ No-blame culture
○ Helpfulness

16. We don’t need
super chickens.
We need
EVERYONE

17. Resources
● Super chickens
○ Forget the pecking order at work (Ted Talk)
○ Super chicken model (Wikipedia)
○ Super chicken experiment (article)
● Collective Intelligence, IQ vs EQ
○ What makes one team smarter than another? (short video)
○ What makes one team smarter than another? (article)
○ Collective Intelligence in Human Groups (video)
○ Evidence of a Collective Intelligence Factor in the
Performance of Human Groups (study)
● Project Aristotle (Google’s research)
○ The five keys to a successful Google team (article)
○ What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect
Team (article)
○ Guide: Understand team effectiveness