Is your team smarter than the sum of its parts? In his influential book on organisational learning, The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge noted that you can put together a team of people, each with an IQ of 120, but as a group they may have a collective IQ of 63. They may struggle to solve problems, make decisions or execute their plans.Why are teams tricky?
We all understand the theory of teams: bringing together diverse perspectives and experiences to think through issues, align on solutions and co-ordinate actions. I refer to this as ‘intelligent collective action’.
And yet in the real …
