Why small teams perform better than big ones

We live in a world where more is considered better than less. A study by three UCLA professors shows that more people on a team, the more time it takes to align their thinking. It’s an example of the Ringelmann effect, discovered in 1913 by French agricultural engineer Maximilien Ringelmann, which describes the tendency of team members to become less productive as the size of the group increases. Since individual efforts are less noticeable when there are more people, there is a tendency to piggyback on others’ output.