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Name: The Culture Code
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Author: Daniel Coyle

Daniel Coyle

The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

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What’s in it for me? Get shrewd tips on how to give yourself and your team a sense of purpose.

Working together makes the world go round. Even the most brilliant geniuses among us need a helping hand now and then to get their ideas off the ground. But pulling together to achieve a common aim isn’t as easy as it looks on paper. Whether it’s in the office or on the sports field, a dysfunctional group dynamic can quickly sour the atmosphere and lead to all manner of infighting.

So what makes a team more than the sum of its parts?

Drawing on evidence ranging from a study of kindergartners building a spaghetti tower, to the way today’s most successful companies run their workplaces, Daniel Coyle’s The Culture Code explores the importance of the way we interact with our teammates, while providing plenty of tips on how to avoid inadvertently throwing a wrench into the works.

In these blinks, you’ll find out

why a group of children can easily beat lawyers in a simple teamwork exercise;
what makes us feel safe and why that matters; and
why stories are so effective when it comes to establishing a shared sense of purpose.

Weak group cultures are the result of focusing on skills and neglecting interactions.

Whether it’s a family, a circle of friends or work colleagues, we’re all members of different groups. And big or small, every group has its own distinctive culture.

So what’s a group culture?

In essence, it’s the relationships between people working together to achieve a common aim.

Not all group cultures are alike, though. Some work well, while others are dysfunctional.

You can spot a poor group culture a mile off. If you’ve ever worked in an office or lived in a house with a defective group culture, you’ll know the atmosphere is so thick and tense that you could cut it with a knife.

That’s often the result of group members focusing on the wrong thing.

Rather than paying attention to the quality of their interactions, they struggle to determine their position within the group and spend time worrying about their own status.

As soon as you start doing that, you’re no longer focused on the work at hand; everything becomes a question of whose ideas can be criticized and which rules are open for debate. That’s a recipe for disaster.

Take a study carried out by engineer Peter Skillman. He asked groups of kindergartners, business school students and lawyers to take part in a simple competition. The aim of the exercise was to build the tallest possible structure using uncooked spaghetti, tape, a yard of string and a single marshmallow.

If you were the betting type, you’d surely put your money on the students or lawyers, right? After all, they’re the ones with the most expertise, experience and general knowledge.

As it turned out, it was the kindergartners who usually won.

So how did they prevail over their older and presumably wiser competitors?

The answer lies in group dynamics. The business school students, for example, always began by analyzing the task at hand, discussing the right strategy to follow and quietly establishing a hierarchy.

The kindergartners pursued a radically different approach. Rather than trying to figure out who was responsible for what, they simply got on with the task. Hardly wasting a word, they huddled together and started experimenting. If one attempt failed, they tried something else.

They ended up winning the competition because they were focused on interaction; they were cooperating to achieve a shared goal rather than competing amongst themselves.

So how can you make your groups more like that of the kindergartners?

In the following blinks, we’ll delve deeper into the question of group culture to find out.

Cultivating a sense of safety and belonging is the foundation of a strong group culture.

Imagine you’ve been assigned a complex task demanding every ounce of your skill and expertise. You’re given two choices as to where to work: your own home or a room full of complete strangers. In which setting would you be more likely to succeed?

Most of us wouldn’t hesitate – of course, it’d be much easier in your own home, right? It’s a safe environment, and the same principle applies to groups. A group performs at a much higher level if each of its members feels safe.

Let people know that you’re listening to them and that you know you aren’t perfect.

So we know that the success of groups depends on making everyone feel safe. But creating a safe environment isn’t something that can be picked up from a book. Like honing your soccer skills, it’s something that takes time and practice.

That said, there are a few tips that might help you along the way.

Sharing your vulnerabilities is vital if you want your group to perform at its highest level.

Take a moment to think about how you interact with others. Have you ever exaggerated your own know-how and gone to great lengths to demonstrate your competence?

If that sounds familiar, you should stop!

Communicate your expectation that people will cooperate, and lead the way by showing your vulnerabilities.

So how do you go about building a strong team?

A good place to start is to communicate your expectation that people should cooperate with each other. To say that you want to cooperate with someone is another way of saying that you need their help – which is also a way of sharing your vulnerabilities.

Establishing a common sense of purpose is the secret to unlocking great group performance.

If you’ve ever played or even just watched a team sport like soccer or basketball, you’ll know that the teams that regularly put in a great performance share a strong vision of how to play together and what they want to achieve.

That’s because a common sense of purpose is key to group performance.

If you want to build a sense of purpose, repeat it again and again and don’t shy away from corny slogans.

Establishing a sense of purpose isn’t something you can do overnight; it’s not as simple as carving a mission statement into a block of granite and putting it outside the company headquarters.

So take your time, as it’s a process that involves failures and learning from past mistakes. Even so, there are a few tips that can help you along the way.

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Daniel Coyle’s The Culture Code (2018) digs into the findings of psychologists, organizational behavior theorists and his own firsthand knowledge of the contemporary business world to provide answers. What makes a group tick? Why do some teams outperform other seemingly evenly matched competitors? As well-researched as it is practical, this study of group dynamics is packed full of illuminating ideas and considered, hands-on advice about getting the best performance out of groups.

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Group culture is one of the most powerful forces on the planet.

—Daniel Coyle

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Managers and executives looking to hone their leadership skills
Employees of large organizations curious about the group dynamics around them
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Über den Autor

Daniel Coyle is an editor for Outside magazine and the author of six books. His previous work includes the coauthored William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize-winning The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France, as well as The Talent Code and The Little Book of Talent. When’s he not at his writing desk, Coyle can be found advising the Cleveland Indians, an Ohio-based baseball team.

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