Source: Scott Mautz, INC.


Entrepreneur and author Margaret Heffernan called attention to a fascinating study by Purdue biologist William Muir in a recently highlighted TED talk. Muir was studying the productivity of chickens, with two groups central to the experiment. He chose a flock of chickens average in their productivity (measured by egg count) and left the group to itself for six generations. He compared this to a group of "superchickens" -- the highest producing chickens put together into a flock, with the superstars among them leading the breeding, for six generations. So what happened to productivity?

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