From the course: Business Chemistry (Blinkist Summary)
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Diverse teams make better decisions
From the course: Business Chemistry (Blinkist Summary)
Diverse teams make better decisions
- [Narrator] You've just listened to our "Blinks to Business Chemistry" by Kim Christfort and Suzanne Vickberg. The key message in these blinks is that empathy is the key to any great relationship and understanding your coworkers' working style is your passport to a mutually satisfying connection with them. Depending on whether you're a pioneer, a guardian, a driver, or an integrator, you'll bring a specific set of strengths to the office, as well as areas for improvement, too. Here's one more helpful tip. Throw different working styles into the same team. If you're putting together a team to work on an upcoming project, it can be tempting to decide which working style would be best for this particular job, and then only select people with that style. If, for example, your project concerns a topic that's fraught with office politics, you might decide to flood the team with integrators. But although it seems intuitive…
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