had gone through similar disappointments at the very highest level of the game and overcame them. He hired the Czech tennis star Ivan Lendl (who also lost the first four Grand Slam finals he played in, then went on to win eight) as his coach in 2011, and the following year Murray won the gold medal in the London Olympic Games and then his first Grand Slam, the US Open.


In the scientific community, this kind of thinking has led to calls for Nobel Prizes to be awarded to teams, rather than just individual scientists. There are signs that things might go this way in other areas too. The 2015 Turner Prize, for example, was awarded for the first time to a collective rather than an individual artist. In the world of music, we see regular evidence of how even the most successful “solo” artists, more often than not, are those who are the most open and creat- ive collaborators—David Bowie, Brian Eno, or Bjork, for example.


The team is generally far stronger, wiser, more intelligent and more capable than the people within it can ever be, considered individually. An organis- ation that has learned to collaborate well can punch far above its weight. In the ideal team, we grasp exactly what we contribute but also how much the project benefits from what others bring to it. However annoy- ing our colleagues may be, our irritation with them is soothed by an awareness that it is precisely their differences that make them adept at particular moves we would be incapable of, and that therefore justifies


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