Team Genius: The New Science Of High-Performing Organizations - Plot & Excerpts
Teams, it turns out, are not strictly practical responses to immediate challenges and situations. Teams are at the heart of what it means to be human. Put another way, as human beings, we must form teams. It is encoded into our DNA. It has proved to be the critical factor in the rise of civilization. The human drive to form teams is also a survival mechanism for individuals. Psychologists have long noted that solitary individuals, from hermits to unattached adults, typically have shorter life spans than their more social, mated counterparts. The archaeological evidence suggests that even the earliest hominids always grouped together to live and hunt. In 1975, the 2.3-million-year-old remains of what appears to have been a hunting party of hominids who died together were found in Hadar, Ethiopia—suggesting that teams existed even before the members were fully human. In the Omo Kibish dry lake bed a few miles away, the anthropologist Richard Leakey found the nearly 200,000-year-old remains of another group of humans who, based on their tools and other artifacts, lived together as a family group or a small tribe.
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