1105: The Five Critical Roles of Every Winning Team with Mark Murphy

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🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Mark Murphy shares insights from his research on maximizing team effectiveness.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why you don’t want a team of all “team players”

2) The simple trick for more decisive teams

3) How to get your team to generate 3X more valuable ideas

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— ABOUT MARK —

Mark Murphy is a New York Times bestselling author, Senior Contributor to Forbes, and

Founder of Leadership IQ, a research and training firm. His latest book is TEAM PLAYERS: The Five Critical Roles You Need to Build A Winning Team. Mark’s previous bestselling books include: Hiring for Attitude, Hundred Percenters, HARD Goals, Managing Narcissists, Blamers, Dramatics and more.

Mark leads one of the world’s largest databases of original leadership research, and his work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Bloomberg, BusinessWeek, Harvard Business Review, and U.S. News & World Report. He’s been a featured guest on programs including CBS News Sunday Morning, ABC’s 20/20, Fox Business News, CNN International and NPR.

Some of his most well-known research studies include “Why New Hires Fail,” “Are SMART Goals Dumb?,” “Why CEO's Get Fired,” “High Performers Can Be Less Engaged,” and “Don’t Expect Layoff Survivors to Be Grateful.” Mark has conducted training for The United Nations, Harvard Business School, Microsoft, IBM, MasterCard, Merck, and thousands more.

• Book: Team Players: The Five Critical Roles You Need to Build a Winning Team

• Quiz: “Team Player Quiz: What Type Of Team Player Are You?"

• Website: LeadershipIQ.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “Studies in the Principles of Judgments and Attitudes: II. Determination of Judgments by Group and by Ego Standards” by S.E. Asch

• Book: Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm

• Past episode: 256: Science-based Solutions for Delivering Tough Truth at Work with Mark Murphy

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0:00.0	If you ask somebody, what's the best team you've ever been on?
0:12.4	In 97% of those teams, all five roles were filled.
0:16.4	Then asked people, what's the worst team?
0:18.8	You would find only about 20% of those teams actually had all five roles filled.
0:23.3	They were missing roles.
0:25.6	We found that even the most introverted of people, when they got to play the role that they were really good at, they're like, yeah, I love groups.
0:33.5	This actually isn't so bad.
0:34.9	This isn't as bad as I thought it was going to be at all. Just because they got to do the thing that really mattered to them.
0:52.3	That's Mark Murphy.
0:53.5	He's the leader of Leadership IQ, where he leads one of the world's largest databases of original leadership research.
0:59.7	His work's been widely published in various news and media outlets, and his latest book is called Team Players, the five critical roles you need to build a winning team.
1:08.2	So you'll learn one, while you don't want a team of all team players, quote unquote, two, the simple trick for more decisive teams, and three, how to get your team to generate three times more valuable ideas. And if you wanna get a quick summary write up of the actionable takeaways that Mark shared, I recommend you sign up for the free goldugget email newsletter found at awesome at your job.com.
1:28.3	I'm Pete McItis.
1:29.2	This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job.
1:30.9	And now, here's Mark.
1:37.0	Mark, welcome back.
1:38.5	Thank you for having me.
1:39.8	I'm glad I got invited back.
1:41.9	Well, yeah, no, well, it took seven years.
1:43.8	It was that like, it's almost like a biblical punishment.
1:48.1	You were exiled for seven years, Mark.
1:50.6	But now?
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