Daniel Coyle’s 2019 book The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups, is replete with case studies of high-functioning teams and their leaders from every field of endeavor. Coyle is able to distill the essential elements shared across these teams that contributes to their success. So often it has to do with trust and the pyschological safety of its members, similar to the findings of Google’s multi-year research project on high-functioning teams. Once again, when team members are less focused on managing other’s perceptions and freer to test run new ideas and challenge others, they will outperform other groups time and time again.
The Secret of Highly Successful Groups