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Choosing Your Own Team?
Why self-selected teams strongly differ from those composed randomly

Diverse teams bring certain advantages to the working world and produce better results. At least, that’s the predominant opinion. As a point of contrast, teams composed based on the members’ complementary characteristics tend to be more harmonious and united. But they are also prone to ignoring critical voices, even when paying attention to them could lead them to better solutions. Researchers from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center analyzed these assumptions in an experiment that ran over multiple years, eventually determining that both randomly selected and self-selected teams each bring with them their own advantages.

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