Every company wants high productivity. Some companies go to great lengths to figure out to hire people that work well together and put all sorts of perks in place to make people happier at work. Awesome.
But, it turns out there is one thing that Google found influenced productivity more than anything else: Psychological Safety. Charles Duhigg, the author of Smarter, Faster, Better and Laszlo Bock, senior vice president of People Operations at Google, were onFreakonomics last week and explained:
DUHIGG: What matters isn’t who is on the team. What matters is how the team interacts.
BOCK: So, we were surprised that these things that everybody kind of says matter ended up not mattering. For example, the most important attribute of a high-performing team is not who leads it or who’s on it or how many people or where it is. It’s psychological safety.
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