Better Teamwork? Don't Group Propellorheads with Novelists
Guess what the key to a http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/662562/?sc=dwhp good team is? Design it around their learning style. That's according to a new study, as reported at newswise.com. Past research on collective problem-solving has come to conflicting conclusions. Some studies have found that people collaborate best when they can communicate with all other group members, emailing or meeting to exchange ideas continuously. Other studies have found that working in smaller subgroups is better, with each member communicating closely with a few neighbors. Striking the right balance between exploration (searching for new ideas) and exploitation (taking an idea and running with it) requires matching a particular group’s social learning style with the right type of network, the study finds. I used to be in teams when I worked at a Fortune 500 company where everybody was pretty much a propellorhead and I was the one doodling in the margins. Safe to say,...