SUPERTEAMS: THE SCIENCE AND SECRETS OF HIGH-PERFORMING TEAMS

I think it's because a lot of the insights are counterintuitive.

So we spend over 70% of our work lives collaborating in teams, and we're all burnt out.

So what's going on there? And the challenge is that most organizations are optimizing for the wrong things.

And so we tend to confuse collaboration, which we all think is a positive word, with constant togetherness, which is not necessarily a positive experience.

And so-

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if we all spend our days with our emails are co- constantly buzzing and we have, uh, text messaging buzzing, and we also on top of that layer in all the meetings, um, we end up feeling completely burnt out and not accomplished.

And in fact, I'll give you some statistics on this.

So the average worker sp-Spends 18 hours a week in meetings.

That's half their week gone.

Then they lose another 11 hours to messages, so that's three quarters of their week now gone before they've accomplished a single task.

Without doing any work.

Yeah, they haven't done any work.

But what about people like me that don't just work 40 hours? You know, I'm like traveling, I'm 50, 60, some- you know.

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You know, we keep asking ourselves, why are people getting burnt out? Better question is, how do they manage to get any work done in the first place?

Right.

And so what we find in our research is that the best teams are much more deliberate in how they spend their hours at the office.

They don't make meetings the default.

They make meetings a last resort.

They're 50% better at avoiding unnecessary meetings.

They're 54% less likely to schedule recurring meetings, and recurring meetings are really difficult to remove from your calendar-

Totally