When you work on a project for an hour lets say you can produce one unit of work In the same amount of time your friend Wanda can produce 1.1 units of work and John can produce .9 units of work.

If working alone you can produce three units in on hour, then working together you could hypothetically be able to complete three and a half or four units.

This is all dependent on how well your coworkers know each other, their individual personalities, and views toward each other. If the balance here is not there it is easy to go flying off the wrong direction and only produce a fraction of the amount.

You need everyone to keep the other members in check and accountable. They should be able to rely on each other to stay motivated. If Wanda and John are working hard on the project, I don’t want to fall behind or look like a slacker, so I’ll work hard on the project.

People will get tired eventually or overly social so it’s not quite a perpetual motion machine, but it’s the closest the business world can get to it.

Creating something greater than the total of all it’s members is also the goal of Tribe Wanted. 5,000 people are being brought together 100 at a time to live on an island and attempt to create a better economy in Fiji.

So as I have pointed out, and tribewanted is off to prove, 2+2=5 for extreme values of 2