REBROADCAST: Bay Area Sports Writer Joan Ryan on the 'Intangibles' of Team Performance

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🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

After following the notoriously bad relationship between baseball icons Barry Bonds and Jeff Kent as well as the meteoric path of the Giants, Bay Area based sports writer Joan Ryan grew curious about team chemistry and how it affects performance. She spent ten years probing sociology, neuroscience and psychology to answer questions about whether team chemistry was real. And if so, what is it exactly? And how do you measure it? Ryan joins us to talk about the importance of sports during the pandemic, how our relationships with friends, colleagues, and family are affected by team dynamics, and her new book, “Intangibles: Unlocking the Science and Soul of Team Chemistry”. (originally aired Aug. 14, 2020) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:24.5	Welcome to Forum.
1:25.9	Bay Area sports writer Joan Ryan covered the San Francisco
1:28.7	Giants for decades. Along the way, she became fascinated by the notion of team chemistry
1:33.5	and how it related to what she called a junk drawer jumble of a team, other sports teams,
1:39.0	and even office and family dynamics. Her new book, Intangibles, Unlocking the Science and Soul of Team Chemistry,
1:45.3	is the result of years of research, interviews, and consultation with neuroscientists and
1:50.4	psychologists to figure out if it exists, and if so, what is it? And how can it work in your favor?
1:56.6	Coming up next, we're going to listen back to my August interview with Joan Ryan. And remember,
2:00.1	since this is a previously recorded show, we won't be taking your
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