Introducing troubled individuals to successful groups often worsens group outcomes.

Evidence

Imagine the case of someone supervising an exceptional team of workers, all of them striving towards a collectively held goal; imagine them hard-working, brilliant, creative and unified. … But the person supervising is also responsible for someone troubled, who is performing poorly, elsewhere. In a fit of inspiration, the well-meaning manager moves that problematic person into the midst of his stellar team, hoping to improve him by example. … Instead, the entire team degenerates. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 306

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 306
• XREF: connects to: Choosing better friends can lead to personal improvement. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 321

Library Connections

• Choosing better friends can lead to personal improvement. #complicates (0.75) — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 321