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Too Much Teamwork Can Kill Creativity
Teamwork is essential to organizational success but too much teamwork can be deadly. This is because it encourages the establishment of collectivism and group think. Instead of coming up with a variety of different and unique ideas, the team unites and don’t come up with as many ideas. The challenge for leaders is to balance individual needs with team directives. To do so they must avoid collectivism and facilitate collaboration. The secret to effective collaboration is individuality.
Know What Your Coworkers Really Think About You
When you do have some power, you can lose the sense of how you’re behaving and who you are, and you don’t want to do that. It’s dangerous.
Nothing’s more helpful than finding out how others see you. If you can conduct that exercise in an impersonal way, you have information you can’t get any other way.