321. He Studied 1000s of Teams — You're Losing 29 Hours a Week and Don't Know It | Ron Friedman, Ph.D.

Only 8% of people are on superteams. The rest lose hours every week sitting in meetings, answering messages, and doing work that gets them nowhere.

Ron Friedman, social psychologist and author of Superteams, researched thousands of teams to find out what high-performing teams do differently.

In this episode, you will learn:

Why most teams loses 29 hours every weekHow superteams handle wins and lossesWhy productivity hacks slow the whole team downMeeting rules that give your team its week backHow superteams collaborate to get the best ideasThe number one predictor of high performance

Topics discussed:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:53) Three Factors of a Real Team

(02:33) What Makes a Superteam

(06:57) The Sunday Night Test

(09:42) Team-First Culture

(12:34) Why Teams Need to Fail

(16:38) Where Your Week Disappears