How to Optimize Your Team for Productivity

ABSTRACT:
As a manager, the ultimate goal is to build trust within a team and facilitate higher levels productivity. But how do we go about optimizing our teams for maximum productivity? In Margaret Heffernan’s TED talk Why it’s time to forget the pecking order at work, she argues that social cohesion is what builds the greatest teams. She demonstrates the issue of companies running “the superchicken model” that essentially means encouraging competition and only rewarding top performers:

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