Review – Dream Teams by Shane Snow
Dream Teams are largely built in the space between inertia and destruction. If a bunch of resources in a team are formed with similar characteristics then there could be a good sync between individuals but the similarities in perspectives won’t help in identifying super optimal solutions. Again if the bunch of resources are sorted together with diverse background and characteristics the gain is the difference in perspectives but team synchronization and trust goes for a toss. It’s the cognitive diversity in teams that creates a lot of potential energy but one needs to strike a balance between a friction which is too low or too high. This is exactly what this terrific book from Shane Snow on Dream Teams talks about. Shane has tried to showcase both success and failure stories (though not in equal measure) to put forward his perspective of what went right or wrong. Personally, I believe this is how a point of view needs to be put forward. I found a few of the stories to b