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MIT Sloan Management Review 2026

A New Way to Address Troubled Team Dynamics

Ina Toegel; Jean-Louis Barsoux

Abstract

Whether team members collaborate effectively is often rooted in their ability to work through, accept, and capitalize on their differences. Through facilitated discussions following the completion of the widely accepted “Big Five” personality assessment, participants can connect their collective personality traits with team tensions or difficulties — whether latent or overt — and defuse them in the process. For newly formed teams, the same exercise can provide insights that accelerate cohesion.

DOI
10.63383/cwsa6642
Language
en
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