DREAM TEAMS

In DREAM TEAMS, award-winning entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow takes us on an extraordinary tour of the hidden science of team dynamics, revealing the counterintuitive reasons that some groups break out while far too many break down.

The best groups are more than the sum of their parts - but why does teamwork so often fail to fulfill this promise? Here Snow reveals the answers, and what the rest of us can learn from the rare teams that do the impossible together. In this intellectual adventure through history, neuroscience, psychology, and business, Snow explores the secrets of these dream teams. Readers will learn:

- How ragtag soccer teams and gangs of pirates beat impossible odds.
- Why DaimlerChrysler failed while the Wu Tang Clan succeeded, and the surprising factor behind most unsuccessful mergers, marriages, and partnerships.
- The Wright Brothers' unconventional problem-solving dynamic, and why a certain kind of fighting is more useful than brainstorming.
- What changed Malcolm X's mind about race relations, and the science of becoming open-minded together.

Provocative and entertaining, DREAM TEAMS is a landmark work that will change the way we think about progress and collaboration.

Shane Snow is a science journalist and the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Contently, one of Inc.'s fastest growing companies and Crain's and Ad Age's Best Places to Work. He was named a Digital Maverick by Details, one of Forbes' 30 Under 30 Media Innovators, one of Inc.'s 30 Under 30 Coolest Entrepreneurs, and one of Business Insider's 100 Coolest People in Tech.

Snow's first book, Smartcuts (HarperBusiness), made him a highly sought-after speaker at governments and organizations around the world. He is a LinkedIn influencer with roughly 300,000 followers, and his posts are syndicated by Time, Business Insider, and Pando. He has roughly 150,000 email subscribers, and he writes regularly for Wired, Fast Company, and GQ.