They used &#x27;meeting behavior&#x27; to predict team performance. And not in the way you would expect. Its not about productivity in the team meetings. Its about feeling safe, respected, and sharing the load.<p>Makes some sense. Team meetings are not where anything gets done after all. If team members are engaged with their peers, they may invest in team goals and perform better.<p>Issue: they correlated team meeting metrics (talking time; socialization time vs problem solving time etc) with team success at achieving goals. They could have used behavior outside the meetings (communications per day; social interactions after work) and predicted successful teams that way. It doesn&#x27;t mean that &quot;Meetings that go like this indicates good teams&quot;? I.e. changing your team meetings to look like what good teams do, may not improve your team at all.  That might be put under &#x27;cargo cult management&#x27;.