Larry Miller, CEO of Activate Networks, once gave us a telling case study. His consultancy was hired by an engineering company to map metrics of success--things like patents and products brought to market--onto the teams of six or seven within the innovation-centric company.
More than quality of work, he says, the relationships that a team had was critical: the best teams had at least one person well-connected across the company.
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