This is Steveer Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

My mythical coaching client, Sam, called,

Desperate to find out how to get their project teams working more efficiently.

I shared my most powerful teamwork secret.

One of teamwork's most powerful forces is one of the least appreciated.

It dates back to your teenage years?

Yes, I'm talking about peer pressure.

Some peer pressure can be bad.

My mother would ask,

If all your friends jumped off a building, would you?

Well, duh, I was a teenage boy, and they were my friends. Of course I'd jump.

Peer pressure can also be good. I did pack a parachute, and I took out life insurance policies

on my friends before jumping. I was a smart teenager. When it comes to teamwork, everyone in a team

unconsciously follows everyone else to decide acceptable levels of performance.

Then, teams look to other teams to decide what is and isn't possible.

I ran a business simulation at Harvard Business School where teams of students ran pretend

companies.

I was the CEO of an entire universe of six teams.

Coincidentally, after the first round of the simulation, every team

had dramatically underproduced what teams usually did during the first round. For the rest of

the two-day simulation, all six teams delivered extraordinarily poor results. They used each

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