Bay Area Sports Writer Joan Ryan on the ‘Intangibles’ of Team Performance

After following the notoriously bad relationship between baseball
icons Barry Bonds and Jeff Kent as well as the meteoric path of the
Giants, Bay Area based sports writer Joan Ryan grew curious about
team chemistry and how it affects performance.   She spent ten
years probing sociology, neuroscience and psychology to answer
questions about whether team chemistry was real. And if so, what is
it exactly? And how do you measure it?  Ryan joins us to talk
about the importance of sports during the pandemic,  how our
interactions affect our performance on non-athletic teams -- as
friends, colleagues, and family, and her new book, “Intangibles:
Unlocking the Science and Soul of Team Chemistry”.