How do you quickly create a functioning team from people who have never met before? When 33 miners got stuck 800 meters underground in Chile in 2010, it required hundreds of experts from different countries, industries, and cultures to form high-performing teams in record time.

In this TED Talk, Amy Edmondson, a professor at Harvard Business School, shares her research on “teaming”—the art of collaborating effectively with people across all boundaries to solve new, urgent problems. She also shows why this is becoming increasingly important in the workplace.

Key takeaways from the talk:

• How to overcome cultural differences when experts from different fields need to collaborate
• The difference between traditional teams and ”teaming”— and why we increasingly need to work in different constellations with new colleagues
• What is required for successful teaming — taking interpersonal risks together with strangers