The book “Social Physics” unveils the latest research about great teams… Unexpectedly, we found that the factors most people usually think of as driving group performance – i.e. cohesion, motivation, and satisfaction – were not statistically significant. The largest factor in predicting group intelligence was the equality of conversational turn taking; groups where a few…… Continue reading The secret science behind awesome teams
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The promise of Social Physics
“The social physics that is emerging brings together branches of economics, sociology, and psychology. Along with network complexity, decision, and ecology sciences and fuses them together using big data. By creating social systems that look beyond aggregates such as markets, classes and parties, and instead examining the detailed patterns of idea exchanges, I show how…… Continue reading The promise of Social Physics