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Re: Memo To Jeff Bezos: The Most Productive Workers Are Team Players, Not Selfish Individualists | The Evolution Institute

Posted by gepr on Oct 27, 2016; 2:18pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Memo-To-Jeff-Bezos-The-Most-Productive-Workers-Are-Team-Players-Not-Selfish-Individualists-The-Evolue-tp7587997p7588011.html


Your argument would be more defensible if you made it clearer that this is merely one possible abuse of the concept of a team.  But I don't think your over-simplification is ever true, even if a manager or organization tried to make it so (consciously or not).  The point of the article (and even, to a lesser extent, the research cited) is that teams enlarge the solution space, increase the degrees of freedom.  With a team, there are more paths to success than with an individual.  And often, those paths are occult.  For example, a good team may well include a spectrum of the extro-intro-verted, where the extreme introverts can be shielded from overly social contexts by the moderate extroverts.  This might allow the team to exploit the talents of both types.

On 10/26/2016 12:59 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Overall, I think managing individuals is often about undermining individuals.  ... A `team' is just code for a preference (by management) for particular personality trait -- extraversion.   People that feel energized or just reassured by the presence of others as opposed to those people that may find the ongoing needs of others a drain and a distraction on their attention.

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