Team Chemistry
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Podcast Overview
<p>Most of what we think we know about teams is incomplete.</p><p>Team Science brings together the researchers and practitioners who've spent careers studying what teams actually are – not collections of individuals, but living systems with their own behaviors, feedback loops, and emergent intelligence. Host Dr. Michael Morand, Founder and Principal of Evo Associates, talks with organizational psychologists, complexity researchers, and the operators putting the science to use. Better questions, sharper thinking, and a few ideas worth bringing back to Monday morning. <i>The Science of Us. Built to Perform.</i></p>
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July 8, 2026
The Conductor Trap, Twice
<p>The team that can't start the meeting until the manager arrives has a new manager now. It's made of math, and it never gets tired of being needed.</p><p><br />Episode 4 of Team Chemistry is a double feature - the same trap, twice. I read two articles on the conductor trap: the pattern where a whole room of capable people collapses into a single-file queue, waiting on one node to fire. In "The Conductor Trap: Enabling Learned Helplessness," that bottleneck is a well-meaning human being. In "The Conductor Trap: AI and Atrophy," it's AI - which sounds like an upgrade until you notice the human conductor had one accidental safety feature: they eventually got tired of being needed and told you to figure it out yourself. The machine never will. Same dependency, rebranded from "alignment" to "best practice." Because you still can't whistle a symphony - no matter how patient the thing whistling it for you.</p>
July 1, 2026
Followership: The Other Half of the Equation
<p>There's an entire industry devoted to making better leaders. There is almost nothing devoted to the people they're leading - which is strange, because that's where most of the work happens.</p><p>This episode is about followership: the underdeveloped half of the leadership equation, and arguably the half that decides whether anything actually gets done. Host Michael Morand sits down with Jyoti Chopra, Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Hertz, where she's responsible for more than 25,000 team members across 11,000+ customer-facing locations. Before Hertz, Jyoti held senior roles at MGM Resorts, Bank of New York, Pearson, Deloitte, and Merrill Lynch - a career spanning Wall Street, hospitality, and mobility, and a rare vantage point on what actually travels about how teams work.</p><p>Across the conversation, Jyoti reframes followership as something active rather than passive: the discipline of choosing who to follow, seeking feedback before it's offered, and holding a team together when the manager doesn't have the answer. She makes the case for the most overlooked layer in most organizations.</p><p>The teams that hold up under pressure usually aren't the ones with the strongest leader in the room. They're the ones who know how to follow well. This episode is about how that actually works.</p>
June 25, 2026
Reframing Leadership
<p>We keep looking for leadership at the front of the room. Most of it's happening three seats over, in a nod.</p><p><br />We treat leadership like a person - a title, a corner office, a slightly better chair. This episode argues we've been pointing at the wrong thing. I read two articles back to back: "Reframing Leadership: A New Toolkit," on what leadership actually <i>is</i> once you stop mistaking it for a job description, and "Micro-Behaviors: Leadership No One Sees," on where it actually <i>happens</i> - which turns out to be the boring Tuesday standup, not the stage. Less corner office, more catalyst. It costs nothing, and it might change everything.</p>
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<p>Most of what we think we know about teams is incomplete.</p><p>Team Science brings together the researchers and practitioners who've spent careers studying what teams actually are – not collections of individuals, but living systems with their own behaviors, feedback loops, and emergent intelligence. Host Dr. Michael Morand, Founder and Principal of Evo Associates, talks with organizational psychologists, complexity researchers, and the operators putting the science to use. Better questions, sharper thinking, and a few ideas worth bringing back to Monday morning. <i>The Science of Us. Built to Perform.</i></p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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