Building Teams Pecha Kucha

1. Building Teams
Pecha Kucha
Pawel Brodzinski
@pawelbrodzinski

2. Meet Ela

3. Meet Ela

4. Meet Hania

5. Meet Hania

6. Teamwork

7. What is knowledge work?

8. Solving
complex
problems

9. How do
we recruit?

10. in·tel·li·gence noun in-ˈte-lə-jən(t)s
(1) : the ability to learn or understand or to deal with
new or trying situations : reason; also : the skilled
use of reason
(2) : the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate
one's environment or to think abstractly as measured
by objective criteria (as tests)
Souce: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intelligence

11. Collective intelligence

12. Meet Anita Woolley

13. Collective intelligence was
much more predictive in terms of
succeeding in complex tasks than
average individual intelligence or
maximal individual intelligence
Anita Woolley

14. There’s no connection
between individual
intelligence and
collective intelligence
Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups

15. Social perceptiveness
Communication evenness
Moderate cognitive style
diversity
Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups

16. Cognitive styles
Object viualizers (visual arts)
Spatial visualizers (engineering)
Verbalizers (humanities)
Source: Olesya Blazhenkova, Maria Kozhevnikov: The New Object-Spatial-Verbal Cognitive Style Model

17. The more women the
better collective
intelligence*
Source: Anita Woolley: Collective Intelligence in Human Groups

18. It’s not just diversity;
it’s gender

19. Sofware development
is a team sport

20. Collective intelligence trumps
individual intelligence

21. TL;DR: More women!

22. Thank you
Pawel Brodzinski
brodzinski.com
lunarlogic.io
@pawelbrodzinski