321: He Studied 1000s of Teams — You're Losing 29 Hours a Week and Don't Know It

Release Date: Aug 11

Only 8% of people are on superteams. The rest lose hours every week sitting in meetings, answering messages, and doing work that gets them nowhere.

Ron Friedman, social psychologist and author of Superteams, researched thousands of teams to find out what high-performing teams do differently.

What You’ll Learn:‍

Why most teams loses 29 hours every week
How superteams handle wins and losses
Why productivity hacks slow the whole team down
Meeting rules that give your team its week back
How superteams collaborate to get the best ideas
The number one predictor of high performance

‍In This Episode:

(00:00) Introduction
(00:53) Three Factors of a Real Team
(02:33) What Makes a Superteam
(06:57) The Sunday Night Test
(09:42) Team-First Culture
(12:34) Why Teams Need to Fail
(16:38) Where Your Week Disappears
(18:23) Productivity Hacks That Backfire
(20:15) Meeting Rules of Superteams
(22:01) The Brainstorm Problem
(25:59) What Drives High Performance
(29:02) Best vs. Worst Teammate Traits
(32:37) Why 97% Of Feedback Fails

About Ron Friedman:

Ron Friedman is an award-winning social psychologist and bestselling author of The Best Place to Work and Superteams. His research on building high-performing teams has been featured in The New York Times, Bloomberg, and Harvard Business Review, where his article “How to Build a Superteam That Keeps Getting Better” is this month’s cover story.

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