Here are the secrets of high-performing teams…

Creating A Team. (Or Maybe You Shouldn’t.): Ask the unasked question: do you really need a team? And if you have more members than a 90’s boy band, you’re in trouble. Every time a team is unnecessarily expanded, a productivity fairy dies.

Team Effectiveness: 60 percent of a team’s success is “Who’s on the team?” 30 percent is clarifying roles. And 10 percent is leadership. So get A-Players. The difference between the best and worst performers is the difference between a firecracker and the Big Bang.

Team Interaction: They need to like each other. Social skills, not average IQ, is what makes smart teams. And you need a disagreeable person. Somebody more Wednesday Addams than Mary Poppins. They might not be the hero you want, but they’re the hero you need; the one who’ll pull the emergency brake on the runaway train of groupthink.

Team Leadership: Even in the Navy, the best squadrons are led by commanders who are less like Captain Bligh and more like Mr. Rogers. Create an environment with safety (Does everyone feel they can speak?), vulnerability (good old-fashioned emotional nudity) and purpose (“This is who we are. This is what we stand for.”) and you’re most of the way there.

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