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; 8:44pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Memo-To-Jeff-Bezos-The-Most-Productive-Workers-Are-Team-Players-Not-Selfish-Individualists-The-Evolue-tp7587997p7588024.html

OK.  But by making that argument, you've ceded the necessary assumption within your original argument.  At this point, we're agreeing on the gist and disagreeing on minor embellishments.  Teams, in the overwhelming majority of cases, increase the individual agency/power of the team members.  As Steve said, the article didn't really teach us anything new.  But one wonders at the persistent false attribution of success and failure to individuals alone, or further, the false dichotomy between the collective and the individual.

On 10/27/2016 12:40 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> All roads leading to Rome does not imply sufficiency of transportation in general.  At some point someone might propose, "I'd like to visit my family in Astana and would like a road so that I don’t have to take a camel from Casablanca", and then they'd look at the map and see that Pisa lacked a road to Rome.  Pisa being closer to Rome, that road gets built instead.


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