> Great Teams Are About Personalities, Not Just Skills Personality is also about team fit. There are plenty of people that are excellent to work with in some

> Great Teams Are About Personalities, Not Just Skills Personality is also about team fit. There are plenty of people that are excellent to work with in some groups but awful in others. People often antagonise each other: perhaps they join a company in which somebody else used to be 'top dog' and feels threatened. They become passive aggressive about each other and the bad vibe festers. Other times their personality is too passive for a new group. Perhaps in their previous company they were a fountain of good advice, but in the new group they're afraid to speak up and have difficulty being listened to. Their ability to positively affect the work of others decreases. You can't just do a personality questionnaire without understanding the context of the group in which they'll be working and these people's own sensibilities and behaviours. > "They show that different cliques form > in the crew based on values similarity > and that higher agreeableness and lower > neuroticism predict better team cohesion > and cooperation." Agreeableness and values similarity are actually bad though -- or at least they can lessen the feasability of innovative thinking. Also, clearly, low neuroticism is good for the overall group, however a lot of people have mental health issues from time to time and we should try to accommodate this.