There's a scientific basis for understanding optimal team size, including research on connection complexity, social loafing, and performance data that challenges common assumptions about how many people should work together effectively.
In this Q&A episode, Dan and Pia dive into the science and the data, to discover the optimum team size.
Episode highlights
- [00:01:27] Is it OK to have a big team?
- [00:04:15] The Ringelmann effect
- [00:07:22] What's the optimum team size?
- [00:08:18] When is a team a group?
- [00:10:20] What the Squadify data shows
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![<p>There's a scientific basis for understanding optimal team size, including research on connection complexity, social loafing, and performance data that challenges common assumptions about how many people should work together effectively.</p><p><br>In this Q&A episode, Dan and Pia dive into the science and the data, to discover the optimum team size.</p><p><br><strong>Episode highlights</strong></p><ul><li>[00:01:27] Is it OK to have a big team?</li><li>[00:04:15] The Ringelmann effect</li><li>[00:07:22] What's the optimum team size?</li><li>[00:08:18] When is a team a group?</li><li>[00:10:20] What the Squadify data shows</li></ul><p><strong>Links</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://dictionary.apa.org/ringelmann-effect">Ringelmann effect</a></li><li><a href="https://www.squadify.net/">Track and improve your team performance with Squadify</a></li><li><a href="https://podinbox.com/wenotme">Leave us a voice note</a></li></ul>](https://us-central1-podcastguru-217d6.cloudfunctions.net/gcf_get_image?image_url=https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts211/v4/1f/78/7a/1f787a52-742e-4181-3641-4142c2fbf772/mza_2141611130449582145.jpg/600x600bb.jpg&width=300&height=300&api_key=xqFmUFX5BHLBTA)