Yesterday, I was turning over in Cocorote the ideal number of people within a team. How many people? It is a question that is not given the importance you actually have. In this case, size does matter. Evidently, in organizing a team, we must consider what is going to make or execute, group tasks, activities or processes that will tell us the necessary skills and who must be involved. From here we can determine the number of people. Nevertheless, some scholars write that six people is ideal. Less or more, the performance is not optimal. Max Ringelmann conducted a series of studies that observed the action of pulling on a rope, both individuals and groups of two, three and eight. The relative performance of each individual showed a progressive decrease as the number of women in each group was higher.
seems that the collective effort is only half the sum of individual efforts, other than saying "unity is strength." Ringelmann showed that the components of a computer may be less motivated when running added activities. Social recreation, social apathy called by Max appears so that the tendency of each is to apply less effort, when the energies to obtain a common goal and spirit unite individual mixing between the collective effort of the team ( Photo Source: Image-gratis.net).
Author: Manuel Velasco Carretero (Malaga, Spain). 
