Google's Project Aristotle: The Five Keys to a Successful Google Team 

Abeer Dubey, Director
People Analytics
Google

 
What is it that makes a team effective? Google’s research uncovers surprising insights around why some groups flourish and others falter.

Pod. Work group. Committee. Autonomous collective. Whatever you call it, you’re part of one at Google and probably wherever you work: a team. So, what is it that makes a team effective? Over two years, we conducted 200+ interviews with Googlers (our employees) and looked at more than 250 attributes of 180+ active Google teams to learn the same. The talk describes how we conducted this research, what we found and how we have put this research into action.

Abeer Dubey joined Google in 2006 as one of the founding members of the People Analytics team. He and his team focus on ensuring that all people decisions at Google are based on data. Most recently, he led the research effort to understand team effectiveness at Google. Abeer earned a master's in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor's in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He also spent a year as a research fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne.