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S3 Ep 8 Dr. Anna Simons: The Anthropology of Mission Critical Teams

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The Disparity of Selection Processes in Special Forces

In many mission critical teams, the selection process is an individual selection process for people who are destined to work on teams. And I've always been fascinated about that and wonder from an anthropological point of view, how you think about that as disparity. The other thing that's a little bit, I don't know whether it's perverse or not. But even selections that are choosing people who can work on teams, that's not the team they're going to end up working on. Sometimes even during selection, that's going to work really well just because of the luck of the drawn in terms of the people that you're being selected with"

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