The Key to Success on a Team is Connection

By Shawn Achor

To crack the code on true potential, data scientists on Google’s world-famous People Analytics team launched an initiative with the not so secret code name Project Aristotle. Here was their initial mission: Build the perfect team. On the surface, the task might seem straightforward. If you were going to build a dream team, you’d simply fill it with the highest performing individuals, right?

So what specific qualities would you look for? High IQ? Fluency in several languages? Project Aristotle was using the greatest algorithm technology to find out. By analyzing incredible amounts of data-including tens of thousands…