A Business Lesson From Academia: Great Teams Assemble Themselves

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A Business Lesson From Academia: Great Teams Assemble Themselves
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What a small research institute found: Don't hire team players, hire teammates

On a November morning in 2018, a handpicked group of the world’s most promising young plant scientists descended on the headquarters of the Boyce Thompson Institute, a prestigious independent research outfit in Ithaca, N.Y.

The 13 scientists knew why they’d been invited. They’d applied for one of several open faculty positions that BTI had advertised. In theory, this was just a job interview. But the agendas they’d been sent made it clear that things were about to get weird.

 

Won't always work.

Bunch of unproductive nonsense that only benefits HR consultant grifters.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE IF YOU GET THE JOB DONE

“Maybe the best way to assemble a great team is to let the team assemble itself.” I swore I saw this happen in Kurosawa’s 7 Samurai.

I think this idea is brilliant. Much easier to work in a team you had choose.

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