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April 12, 2007
It's Teamwork, Not Solos, That Makes for Discoveries, Research Finds
Bad news for lone geniuses: It takes a team to advance knowledge these days.
So say three management professors at Northwestern University who analyzed nearly 20 million papers published over the past 50 years and more than two million patents to reach their conclusion. Highly cited research is more often published by teams than by solo authors, and that advantage has increased over time, they report in a paper scheduled to appear today in Science online.
Natural scientists aren’t the only ones to line up a squad to attack fundamental problems in their fields. The trend holds for work in the arts and humanities as well, leading the authors to conclude that, for a broad range of intellectual pursuits, “the process of knowledge creation has fundamentally changed.” —Susan Brown
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Teamwork enables many professionals to be highly productive. Trust and confidence in team members and their capabilities serves to help motivate others. Teamwork helps others to accept responsibility and to work hard to achieve organizational goals. When a team is functioning as a collective unit people experience self-confidence, assurance, become optimistic, sensitive, and alert for capitalizing on opportunities.
William Allan Kritsonis, PhD
Professor
PhD Program in Educational Leadership
Prairie View A&M University
Member of the Texas A&M University System
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— William Allan Kritsonis, PhD Apr 13, 08:18 PM #
Gee, teams publish more good stuff than individuals! Well, there’s more of them, so if they didn’t, someone would be slacking. But who cares; as long as solo players are doing nearly as well, they’re doing better than the average team player, and that’s the relevant comparison.
— MICHAEL SCRIVEN Apr 13, 09:51 PM #