The Super Chicken Farm

No one was safe anymore...

Once upon a time...

More eggs?

Average chickens

Super Chickens

“That’s my company...”

http://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_heffernan_why_it_s_time_to_forget_the_pecking_order_at_work

Dr. Anita Williams WoolleyOrganizational Behavior and TheoryCarnegie 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”

1: Equal speak

time

2: High Social Sensitivity

(Emotional Intelligence)

Emotion?

Jealous

Panicked

Arrogant

HatefulPanickedReading the mind in the eye: http://socialintelligence.labinthewild.org/mite/

3: More Women

“What makes one team smarter than another?”

Links: Short Video | Long video | Article | Full Study

Google: Project Aristotle

Emotional

Intelligence

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/

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

We don’t need super chickens.

We needEVERYONE

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