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Teamwork, team spirit the synergy of team, all these words is quite common in today's competitive world, in all-human endeavor. After about three decades of working in industries, I want to write in brief the conflicts between individuality, to work in a team and leadership.
There is no doubt, that the first step in direction of Science, Technology and mostly the Arts is always fruits a individual, one person in a 10 million is a genius. Since this article is just a sketch, I will confine myself in the field, technology.
From childhood, we are made to work in groups, the same books the same questions in exams. From the quality of student's answer, in very rare cases, individuality is expressed, but mostly it goes un-noticed. After 10 years of junior school studies, we produce mostly stereotypes. Some could produce good marks whch helps them to take their new steps. We miss the poor performers who take a path different or think in a different way.
This goes on throughout high school, graduation and ultimately in world of bulk output-the industries. Even with the flat nature of education, we sometimes get people who still has retained individuality, out of this individual a few also can work as a team and they become the leaders, the entrepreneur, they open up new directions in management process. But this happen in general at the age of mid-twenties. We loose a huge amount of individuals who could have contributed a lot but due to their egocentric individuality, their orthogonal reasoning, they are not successful -in most cases, they become failure in life.
Practically all human being from 5th birthday onwards shows individualistic streak, As each human trends are creative or destructive, we do not have a chance to understand them, some of them becomes bored with their school curriculum and studies on their own, some drops out of school and sadly some becomes misguided.
The most import attribute of a human being- imagination!
However, uncontrolled imagination without a well-correlated knowledge base serves no purpose. Data is pumped into the mind of the child, rules are given to correlate the data to have information, later -on these information base from different information archived are correlated and a person may acquire knowledge. This is simple when written, but it is the most complex process not yet understood. What we do to understand in today's trend in hyper-specialization? We need to find way or means and mentally to correlate information.
Case to the point: Let us take a topper from a great engineering school, definitely he has worked hard, has a target in his life. In partially all cases he is in demand, soon he is a team member and again it is like the schooldays, things have to be done in a way he is being told to do, he is lucky enough if his individual thinking which can make the project group efficient is ever listened by his leader.
How then are leaders selected? Sidelining politics and other underhand means in most cases, they are experienced people who have guided a team of 5- to 10 engineers for at least 5 years. Now again it is just like the school days:
Does the leader recognizes the individual thickeners, supports innovative thinking, try to get into the minds of his co-workers and filter their imaginative suggestions, and guide them so the group performance improves.
In the military organizations, except in very special cases, individualism has to be thrown away. Expect during war and natural disaster, for which they are optimized, an army is the most in-efficient organization of all, economically and in performance.
Therefore, to keep up both individualism and a sense of team work Leaders organize "Brain Storming seasons" This is an excellent way of letting the bubbling individual ideas come out -trim the defective -once -enhance the prospective ones, finally one or many ideas leads to the solution of the problem in hand. In this case, the team leader must:
1: Should put the problem in hand with his own solution un-uttered.
2: Let each person in his team come up with suggestions, justify it.
3. Let every-one criticize everyone else, rationally.
To prepare for the brain storming the team members should be prepared at least a day ahead. Leaders must know that every individual has suppressed individuality in them, this us the time to know his team members way o thinking-select the person who will occupy his position in future. He will also find out the pretenders who lack individuality, they will be diligent workers who will work hard for long hours if shown the path
Unfortunately in this brain storming seasons we noticed two things:
1) The Leader is absent
2) Or he interrupts mid ways and leaves the session; the result is no concrete solution comes off this Brain Storming.
Another fault we noticed is that the team tries to either get or put the blame on different teams. The members should strictly avoid it.
Words like:
"He is right" must be uttered honestly
"He is talking hogwash" must be said honestly and pleasantly.
"I said that in the last storm" should be avoided.
Bringing out and utilizing individual contribution while keeping the team intact and in harmony - that is all you have to do to be a successful leader, another thing - shield them from the techno-bureaucratic turmoil from those above you. Be the buffer.
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