CIA experiment reveals what the success of teams depends on

In the late 2000s, the CIA and scientists at Harvard University launched an experiment called “Mirror.” He

was meant to help experts understand why intelligence failed to prevent the 9/11 attacks. The results of that experiment helped researchers understand what determines the success of teams.

In the “Mirror” experiment, we playedemergency. A group of scientists had to plan a terrorist attack, and a group of “intelligence officers” had to prevent it. As a result, intelligence lost due to the fact that it did not use the strengths of its participants. The group was only able to win when all the “officers” talked to each other and learned more about each one.

This experiment forced the researcher fromCarnegie Mellon University is redefining the concept of “collective intelligence.” Previously it was assumed that this term denotes the totality of the intellectual capabilities of individual team members.

Researchers conducted additional experimentsand saw that the success of the group was influenced not by "collective intelligence" in the classical sense, but by how well all the participants communicated with each other. Also, the success of the team was influenced by whether the participants could determine the state of each other.