So they took wastly (40% worse) suboptimal method of groupwork [1], which emphasizes only communication abilities and then they try to infer general claims from that.
Of course they will find that "emotional senitivity" makes "teams" that work in such conditions better.
And of course they won't find "common patterns for successful teams" in their meetings because, basically, meetings are not where decisions are made.
The linked article doesn't support your claim that brainstorming "emphasizes only communication abilities"; it only claims that brainstorming in groups is a worse way to generate ideas than to have people generate ideas individually & then combine them.
So they took wastly (40% worse) suboptimal method of groupwork [1], which emphasizes only communication abilities and then they try to infer general claims from that.
Of course they will find that "emotional senitivity" makes "teams" that work in such conditions better.
And of course they won't find "common patterns for successful teams" in their meetings because, basically, meetings are not where decisions are made.
What a clueless research.
[1] http://observer.com/2015/05/brainstorming-does-not-work/