# Curiosity = Great team

**URL:** <https://forum.zurb.com/t/curiosity-great-team/195>\
**Category:** Aligning your team\
**Created:** [August 21, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/curiosity-great-team/195 "2025-08-21T14:40:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Bryan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.zurb.com/bryan/32/448_2.png) [@Bryan](https://forum.zurb.com/u/Bryan)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/curiosity-great-team/195/1 "2025-08-21T14:40:53Z")

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Love this share from @Helge on LinkedIn

> **[Curiosity Is an Organizational Competency](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/curiosity-organizational-competency-michelle-gilboy-itx4e/?trackingId=ztwzIQ%2BX1R5ttaxUxwLKMg%3D%3D)**
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> This Is How We Work Now – Part 4 (AI prompts included) We are living in a curiosity deficit that is costing us more than we realize. Despite operating in an age defined by information overload and innovation buzzwords, most people—and most...

I’ve long found that curiosity is one of the most important traits of great work in a team- it somehow fills in all the gray areas.

1. **feedback loops grind to a halt** → teams polish too long without design signals, which slows testing and hides what’s really working.

2. **alignment gaps start to show up** → without curiosity and shared clarity, leaders misalign strategy to user needs, and decisions bog down.

3. **momentum dies** → delayed testing plus resource constraints grind iteration to a halt.

4. **signal blindness** → Teams keep running with yesterday’s assumptions instead of surfacing new ones. (I know @Helge is big on this one!)

Most of these pain points trace back to a lack of curiosity as a working practice.

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**Author:** ![nathaliesmith](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.zurb.com/nathaliesmith/32/443_2.png) [@nathaliesmith](https://forum.zurb.com/u/nathaliesmith)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 12:37am UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/curiosity-great-team/195/2 "2025-11-14T00:37:57Z")

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Oooop! This relates back to my current post: [The Trait That Turns Chaos Into Measurable Progress... is what?](https://forum.zurb.com/t/the-trait-that-turns-chaos-into-measurable-progress-is-what/363)

I’ll take it 😉