Simply by examining the biometric profile of each sailor, Berka and her team could reliably track and identify which sailors were going to excel at collaborative problem solving. With nothing more than these data printouts, they could tell the difference between a novice team still fumbling around, a sophomore team just starting to gel, and a high-performing team of experts. By the end of the full sixteen-week program, they could predict—months in advance of actual deployment—which teams were going to be able to “flip the switch” and drop into group flow together, and which ones ran the risk
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