Beyond Measure: The True Power and Skill of Collaboration
summary
Tells the specific experiments and surprising counts: a poultry study bred for productivity across six generations and produced a "super flock" that collapsed — only a few survived — while the control flock improved; MIT group studies show team success ties to reading the mind in the eye test (empathy), equal speaking time, and more women, not aggregate IQ. Cites Bell Labs' creativity driven by pervasive helpfulness and open platforms like Innocentive where a plant biologist solved a Lou Gehrig biomarker and a cement engineer fixed oil‑spill problems. Emphasizes time together, trust and social capital as practical levers.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:25Muirs Experiment
- 3:13Competition
- 3:41Open Source
- 4:24The Open Source Movement
- 4:51Working in a different way
- 5:33Why some teams are better than others
- 6:56What is the IQ test
- 7:40Connection to the whole
- 11:21Curiosity
- 12:05Open Innovation
- 13:12Spend Time Together
- 14:41Get to Know People
- 16:50Cultural Transformation
- 17:33Adapting to Technology
- 18:55The naysayers
- 19:31Evolutionary biology
- 20:05Social capital
- 21:11The cultural shift
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