Are You Stronger Together?
Sorry, I'm sick of the baloney, so I have to write this.
Strength is in your heart, not in numbers.
“Team work” was introduced by international corporations a good while ago as a plus, yet what I have found out from corporate workers it was good only for dissolving personal responsibility for all participants, members and bosses included. The “communist” version from behind the Iron Curtain sarcastically said,
“Strength is in the numbers.”
Do you REALLY think you are “stronger together”?
According to studies in the 1980s, a single intelligent person was able to solve a complex realistic scenario alone faster and more efficiently than a group in which the same person was present. That’s good for starters.
What makes it indefensibly worse is that in a group, nobody takes responsibility for the group’s decision, which makes the outcome slower and dumber. Every member waits for someone else to do the job and (as one of the commenters noted here) nobody makes an effort beyond the obvious minimum.
Ultimately, you are the ONLY person responsible for your own decisions and, yes, if you have young and incompetent dependents, you are also responsible for them.
Still, at a young age, I already realized that making my own decisions, no matter how faulty they were, was still better than waiting for the situation to solve itself.
This all boils down to a single fact:
You become WEAKER together, but stronger, if you are together with people, who already know what they want.
That is exactly what my site is all about.
I was a non-traditional college student in the early 2000's. Most of my classes had traditional aged students. One class we were forced to do a 5 man group project. 2 people never showed up to meetings, and the one person who did, shared his "floppy disk" which was always blank, but he swore it worked on his computer. I drove 50 miles one way to go to college, and had to work around all the schedules of those who already lived on campus. What a joke. Guess who ended up doing the entire project. Yep, me. On a positive note, the professor knew, and I got the A, while the others did not. Still, it didn't make up for weeks of frustration knowing from the beginning I would end up doing all the work myself. I find the same still happens in every workplace I have ever been involved with. That is also why Communism cannot work-as so many sit back and let others do the work. Nobody ends up working. Everything ends up collapsing.
I love this!!! "According to studies in the 1980s, a single intelligent person was able to solve a complex realistic scenario alone faster and more efficiently than a group in which the same person was present." A friend likes my stuff - but sees that what's really needed is a panel of psychologists, as together we'd have more strategies, etc. I do not agree. Especially I don't see this as an effective way of giving space for people to take on their particular challenges. So, thanks for this wonderful backing of what I knew inside was right.