Tag Archives: team

What makes an Effective Team? The role of Trust (dis)confirmation in Team Development

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

Most newly formed teams manage to function in spite of the fact that their members do not know each other. Over time, teams progress into successful units; however, sometimes, they regress into a situation where morale is worse than when … Continue reading →

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Does Conflict Help or Hinder Creativity in Teams ?

Posted on May 28, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

We examine the relationship between conflict and creativity-relevant intra-group processes over time. More specifically, we explore whether task and relationship conflict have effects on the extent to which teams engage in information exchange and creative problem solving. We test these … Continue reading →

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Training Creative Teams

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

This master’s project presents creative principles, frameworks, materials, and online methodologies for the development of a new or updated training program within a team environment. Inspiration for the project was sourced from creativity research papers, publicly available training guides, popular … Continue reading →

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Leadership in Team Based Knowledge Management – An Autopoietic Information System’s Perspective

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Giorgio Bertini

In this paper we show how team work between participants can be facilitated through the use of principles from autopoietic theory and modern Web2.0 technologies like social networks, forums, semantic wiki systems, podcasting,  as well as social tagging in order … Continue reading →

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The Recipe for Clever Teams: Complexity, Diversity, Cognitive Diversity and Serendipity

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Giorgio Bertini

Clever teams normally work on complex tasks, because if they weren’t so difficult, you wouldn’t need a clever team. Working on these tasks tends to produce high levels of team cohesion. Yet, when we examine these teams, we learn that … Continue reading →

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Social interaction and teamwork lead to human intelligence

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Giorgio Bertini

Scientists have discovered proof that the evolution of intelligence and larger brain sizes can be driven by cooperation and teamwork, shedding new light on the origins of what it means to be human. The idea that social interactions underlie the … Continue reading →

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What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Giorgio Bertini

There’s little correlation between a group’s collective intelligence and the IQs of its individual members. But if a group includes more women, its collective intelligence rises. Cutting-edge research on group behavior shows that the collective intelligence of work teams rise … Continue reading →

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Teaming up in networks

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Giorgio Bertini

Teams seem to be the answer to many important questions. Here I will try to open some of the questions that has lead to this answer and why we are asking them. Let’s start with two working definitions by Peter … Continue reading →

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Team assembly mechanisms determine collaboration network structure and team performance

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Giorgio Bertini

Read Agents in creative enterprises are embedded in networks that inspire, support, and evaluate their work. Here, we investigate how the mechanisms by which creative teams self-assemble determine the structure of these collaboration networks. We propose a model for the … Continue reading →

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