This is Eat Sleep Work Group, a weekly podcast on happiness and work culture.

Here we go, this is Eat Sleep Work Group, I'm Bruce Dasley.

All of the episodes are live on the website and that's eat sleep work repeat dot fm

right so here's the story this is a podcast about making work better now maybe that's partly about improving work culture and

also it's a little bit about making our workloads feel more manageable just trying to

reduce the amount of stress we're feeling. If you want to do a good deed, today's episode's actually a really good one.

And a big one to share, why don't you forward it to someone at work, good for the all-round

you know what I mean? Today's episode is looking at the research into what makes good teams.

And I saw some research by Anita Williams Woolley this time last week.

I spent all day on Sunday watching her TED Talks and her lectures, just sort of devouring everything she had on on YouTube and

the internet and I contacted her with a question about some of her slides. She

basically got back to me and agreed to come on the show.

So Anita Williams-Wully is an associate professor of organizational behavior at the

Tempore Business School, that's part of Carnegie Mellon University, and of course that's in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Anita's work is to try and understand the idea of collective intelligence that is in the same way that

IQ measures individual intelligence she found a way to measure the

intelligence of different groups. And the fascinating thing is they found that the

different groups, different compositions of people tended to show the same collective intelligence across

different puzzles. Right, so she saw that she could measure it and predict it and

and obviously that would be really interesting for any of us who are responsible for being in teams

or creating teams.

Her and her colleagues found a couple of things that you're going to find fascinating about

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