{"id":41751,"date":"2023-10-20T15:16:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/google-has-found-the-key-to-building-a-perfect-team-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:16:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:16:14","slug":"google-has-found-the-key-to-building-a-perfect-team-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/google-has-found-the-key-to-building-a-perfect-team-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Google has found the key to building a perfect team &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"332\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Googleoffice-640x332.jpg\" alt=\"GOOGLE HEADQUARTERS\" title=\"Googleoffice\"><\/div>\n<p>A secret project &nbsp; at Google has been dedicated to building the perfect team for nearly five years.<\/p>\n<p>Detailed in an extensive New York Times article by Charles Duhigg, \u2018Project Aristotle\u2019 studied hundreds of the tech giant\u2019s teams and aimed to figure out \u201cwhy some stumbled while others soared&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Through years of research and studies the team found that one thing was more important than anything else in determining how well a team worked together: Psychological safety.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article, this occurs when team members feel comfortable discussing aspects of their personal lives with their co-workers and not focusing purely on work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Project Aristotle has taught people within Google is that no-one wants to put on a \u2018work face\u2019 when they get to the office,\u201d Duhigg writes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo-one wants to leave part of their personality and inner life at home. But to be fully present at work, to feel \u2018psychologically safe\u2019, we must know that we can be free enough, sometimes, to share the things that scare us without fear of recriminations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Project Aristotle found that a team that really knows each other and feels comfortable expressing themselves will work best.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must be able to talk about what is messy or sad, to have hard conversations with colleagues who are driving us crazy,\u201d Duhigg writes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t be focused just on efficiency. Rather, when we start the morning by collaborating with a team of engineers and then send emails to our marketing colleagues and then jump on a conference call, we want to know that those people really hear us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to know that work is more than just labor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article also uncovered some other discoveries from Google\u2019s extensive studies on productivity and people, including that the most productive employees rotate who they get lunch with, and that good communication and an avoidance of micromanaging are the best traits for managers.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full article here.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow StartupSmart on <strong>Facebook<\/strong>, <strong>Twitter<\/strong>, <strong>LinkedIn<\/strong> and <strong>SoundCloud<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A secret project &nbsp; at Google has been dedicated to building the perfect team for nearly five years. Detailed in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}