Reading-Notes

Class: 14b - What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team

### Rozovky was struggling with feeling safe in her group. It wasn’t a space where she could relax speak freely but instead she felt like she was walking on egg-shells.


Second Group

Rozovsky mentions that the group would email each other funny jokes as well as start the meetings with a 10 miniute disccusion of their lives and other stuff. This just further built a good rapport within the group. Allowing for not only a productive team but a long-lasting one.

## Thoughts: ###    In this group Rozovsky noticed people the diversity of professions in the new group. This group dispite having different profession backgrounds not only got along great but they created a space where ideas flourished rather than being nipped in the bud. The big different between group one and two was that in group one the people had a space where they mutually respected each other and their ideas. In the reading it points out that they were coming up with some crazy ideas; if the first group wasn’t so toxic to each other who knows what great ideas could have come out of there.

###    This translates to what Google learned about groups because of actions that Rozovsky experienced in group one that there was a correlation between people having a safe space to speak their thoughts/ideas and productivity. A group that had mutual respect for one another and appreciated everyone’s input actually ends up creating a cohesive and efficient group. In the Reading this was called psychological safety. being able to understand one another’s mood or life in general outside of work is crucial to becoming a cohesive group. There is no Guide to follow to get people to like you or like each other. As long as you create a space for people to speak to one another freely without judgment will you be able to create that bond. A good example of this is Sakaguchi. He saw his team wasn’t opening up the way he expected so I started it. Sakaguchi as the leader of the team shared a personal part of his life and everyone else followed.