How to organise a team and what behaviours to encourage

December 27, 2019

I've been reading research on two things: (1) the Organisation and Behaviors of teams that make them most productive and (2) principles and methods for Decision Making. I'm sharing my notes and observations on the first part - Team Organisation and Behaviors.

It's hard to generalise research in this field. But the alternative is to do things based on no evidence. So I'll revisit the research every few years. Until then I recommend the above.

Main references I used:

Profs Scott de Rue and Maxim Sytch's course on "Leading People and Teams" and numerous academic articles in that course.

Profs Hulsheger, Anderson, and Salgado's review: "Team-Level Predictors of Innovation at Work: A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis Spanning Three Decades of Research"

Prof Daniel Kahneman's book "Thinking, Fast and Slow"