What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team

What makes the perfect team?

To have a great team, there is no surefire recipe for success. A combination of solid leadership, communication, and access to good resources contribute to productive collaboration, but it all comes down to having people who understand each other and work well together.

What Google learned about building the perfect team?

There were other behaviors that seemed important as well — like making sure teams had clear goals and creating a culture of dependability. But Google’s data indicated that psychological safety, more than anything else, was critical to making a team work.

The 5 qualities Google found in all of their highest performing teams.

• Psychological safety.
• Dependability.
• Structure and clarity.
• Meaning of work.
• Impact of the work.