He’d found that in most cases, teamwork failed to make the dream work. It was more likely to be a nightmare . . . as anyone who ever did a group project in school can attest. Most teams were less than the sum of their parts. For several years, Richard had been studying how to improve collaboration within the major U.S. intelligence agencies. He told us that although analysts had tried to sound the alarm about the threat of airplanes being hijacked as weapons, the intelligence community had failed to heed their warnings. If his research had produced the needed results sooner, they might have
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