> Teams can be high performing, but high performing individuals are often built by the environment. This is a common bias I experience in American corporate cu

> Teams can be high performing, but high performing individuals are often built by the environment. This is a common bias I experience in American corporate culture and it drives me nuts. Viewing things at the individual level makes it really difficult to understand and cultivate productivity in a sustainable way. Often I find it more useful to look at productivity at the team level. It tends to have more explanatory power than at the individual level because it gets more into psychological safety, communication, attributes that are crucial for high performing teams but are difficult to suss out if you are just focused on individuals. Like you, I have seen way too many smart people stuck in situations where their skills and talents were completely underutilized. Vice versa there's way too many politically adept but inept individuals out there who have the companies that employ them in a stranglehold. All they do is empty these companies of resources, time and money while bringing nothing of value in return.