Why you should look for fresh collaborations

Researchers from Northwestern University studied creative teams in the arts and sciences to determine the make-up of successful teams. The key is to choose "the right balance of diversity and cohesion -- achieving the bliss point intersection of the two."

"We found that teams that achieved success -- by producing musicals on Broadway or publishing academic papers in good journals -- were fundamentally assembled in the same way, by bringing in some experienced people who had not worked together before. The unsuccessful teams repeated the same collaborations over and over again..."

See: Dream teams thrive on mix of old and new blood (via Boing Boing)