<p>Are you betting for the team with maximum top-notch stars this FIFA World Cup in Brazil? Read on.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Contrary to popular belief, researchers have found that after a certain point, the addition of more superstar talent to a team can actually be detrimental, resulting in poorer team performance.<br /><br />The presence of too many individuals with top talent can undermine players' willingness to coordinate, which can compromise effective teamwork and overall team performance, the findings showed.<br /><br />"Most people believe that the relationship between talent and team performance is linear - the more their team is packed with talent, the better they will do," said Roderick Swaab, professor at France-based INSEAD, one of the world's leading and largest graduate business schools.<br /><br />"For teams requiring high levels of interdependence, like football and basketball, talent facilitates team performance but only up to a point," Swaab explained.<br /><br />"Beyond this point, the benefits of adding more top talent will decrease and eventually hurt the team performance because they fail to coordinate their actions," he added.<br /><br />The research indicates that the too-much-talent effect only emerges in sports that require a high level of interdependence between players.<br /><br />For more individualistic sports, such as baseball, very high levels of talent do not seem to hurt the performance of the team.<br /><br />The findings are set to appear in the journal Psychological Science.<br /><br />--Indo-Asian News Service<br />gb/na/ks/vt<br />(219 Words)<br />12061425<br /><br /></p>
<p>Are you betting for the team with maximum top-notch stars this FIFA World Cup in Brazil? Read on.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Contrary to popular belief, researchers have found that after a certain point, the addition of more superstar talent to a team can actually be detrimental, resulting in poorer team performance.<br /><br />The presence of too many individuals with top talent can undermine players' willingness to coordinate, which can compromise effective teamwork and overall team performance, the findings showed.<br /><br />"Most people believe that the relationship between talent and team performance is linear - the more their team is packed with talent, the better they will do," said Roderick Swaab, professor at France-based INSEAD, one of the world's leading and largest graduate business schools.<br /><br />"For teams requiring high levels of interdependence, like football and basketball, talent facilitates team performance but only up to a point," Swaab explained.<br /><br />"Beyond this point, the benefits of adding more top talent will decrease and eventually hurt the team performance because they fail to coordinate their actions," he added.<br /><br />The research indicates that the too-much-talent effect only emerges in sports that require a high level of interdependence between players.<br /><br />For more individualistic sports, such as baseball, very high levels of talent do not seem to hurt the performance of the team.<br /><br />The findings are set to appear in the journal Psychological Science.<br /><br />--Indo-Asian News Service<br />gb/na/ks/vt<br />(219 Words)<br />12061425<br /><br /></p>