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A few years ago, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team.html" target="_blank">Google decided to research what was the key ingredient that made some software teams at the company more successful than others</a>. Much to their surprise the key trait that was most correlated with successful teams wasn’t technical prowess, personalities or the educational background of the team members. Instead it was the notion of psychological safety — “ <em>a shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking</em>.’’