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Sunday, September 10, 2006

On Group Dynamics

What is a group? Is it just a agglomeration of some individuals coming together for no reason at all. Team, Group, what the fuck is this all about. Do we really need teams to move ahead and progress. My views are very different on this subject. I do not think that group or team formation serve any purpose as such. Dumb people find themselves very comfortable in groups since they can stand behind the brilliance of some individuals and can progress with them.

This concept of team has been introduced by the most foolish and dumbest people in this world (who are in majority) and we have just inherited it. Most teams in this world succeed because there is always one person who pulls it ahead, because of whom the team makes progress, and without whom the team will be nothing but a collection of idiotic, good for nothing, and dumb bastards.

The concept was employed extensively in the U.S. and many people attribute the success of U.S. to it. Most of the time we are not able to find the right reason for their success and we blindly accept all the norms prevalent in their society as ideal and "the right way". If team was such a successful norm, can anyone answer how many major achievements, be it in any field, canbe attributed to teams rather than individual. As far as I know, the major progress, be it in Science, technology, art and even management, has been possible only due to individual brilliance. Individuals have always developed the novel ideas and against all odds have advocated them forward. Einstein did not work in any team when he developed the relativity theory. How many nobel prizes have been awarded to teams for their brilliant contribution to the mankind? Even when group awards are given, most of the them they are given to individuals who had developed a similar idea working independently.

1 Comments:

Blogger Fervid Blogger said...

"Work groups have no need or opportunity to engage in collect work that requires joint effort. So their performance is just a summation of each group member’s individual contribution. There is no positive synergy”- Robbins

What you have is a work group. Merely calling a work group a team doesn't increase its performance.

Now u know who works and who don't. In the future try to form a 'team'. It might change your views on working collectively.

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