[BÍ QUYẾT ĐỂ CÓ NHỮNG NHÓM THÔNG MINH: ĐÓ LÀ PHỤ NỮ!] As a team of scientists from MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and Union College write in this Sundays New York Times, research suggests that just as some individuals are smarter than others, some groups are smarter than others, across a range of tests and tasks. In other words, there is a c factor for collective intelligence. Teams that are successful at solving visual puzzles also tend to be good at brainstorming and beating computers in video games. The authors provide a nice summary of the characteristics of smart groups in their original study (not directly linked in the Times piece, but accessible on page 686 of Science, October 2010): In two studies with 699 people, working in groups of two to five, we find converging evidence of a general collective intelligence factor that explains a group’s performance on a wide variety of tasks. This “c factor” is not strongly correlated with the average or maximum individual intelligence of group members but is correlated with the average social sensitivity of group members, the equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking, and the proportion of females in the group. That bolded sentence is hiding a lot of heavy conclusions in plain sight. First, neither the average intelligence of the group nor the smartest person in the group had much to do with the groups c factor. Just as great artists dont necessarily form great bands when they pool their talents, smart people dont automatically make smart groups. Furthermore, the predictable troupe of buzzwords you would expect to correlate with successful groups—cohesion, motivation, and satisfaction—didnt have much to do with effective teams, either. Instead, the single most important element of smart groups, according to the researchers, was their average social sensitivity. That is, the best groups were also the best at reading the non-verbal cues of their teammates. And, since women score higher on this metric of emotional intelligence, teams with more women tended to be better teams... theatlantic/business/print/2015/01/the-secret-to-smart-groups-isnt-smart-people/384625/ P/S: Những người thông minh chưa chắc đã tạo thành 1 nhóm làm việc thông minh!
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 05:44:45 +0000
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