How Teams Succeed (with Colin Fisher)

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We'd love to hear from you. Today is July 31st, 2025, and my guest is author and scholar of organizational behavior, Colin Fisher. of University College London's School of Management. He is the author of The Collective Edge, Unlocking the Secret Power of Groups, which is our topic for today. Colin, welcome to Econ Talk.

Thanks so much for having me, Russ. What is the collective edge? The collective edge is the often ignored and overlooked power that we have when we're in groups and that so much of what we do at work, what we do at home is in groups. We're influenced by even imagining that we might be in a group or other people who we identify with.

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