Dream Teams

Award-winning entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow reveals the counterintuitive reasons why so many partnerships and groups break down--and why some break through.

The best teams are more than the sum of their parts, but why does collaboration so often fail to fulfill this promise? In  Dream Teams , Snow takes us on an adventure through history, neuroscience, psychology, and business, exploring what separates groups that simply get by together from those that get better together.

You'll

   *   How ragtag teams--from soccer clubs to startups to gangs of pirates--beat the odds throughout history.

   *   Why DaimlerChrysler flopped while the Wu-Tang Clan succeeded, and the surprising factor behind most failed mergers, marriages, and partnerships.

   *   What the Wright Brothers' daily arguments can teach us about group problem solving.

   *   Pioneering women in law enforcement, unlikely civil rights collaborators, and underdog armies that did the incredible together.

   *   The team players behind great social movements in history, and the science of becoming open-minded.

Provocative and entertaining,  Dream Teams  is a landmark work that will change the way we think about people, progress, and collaboration.