Title: Working Together or Working Alone - What's More Effective?
Headings: Working Together or Working Alone – What’s More Effective?
Working Together or Working Alone – What’s More Effective?
Contents
The Push for Autonomous Workers
Thoughts on Working Alone
More People Can Mean More Problems
Dealing with an Uneven Playing Field
Thoughts on Working Together
Team Work Develops Important Skills for Your Success
To Work Together or to Work Alone

Content: Yet another person also disagrees because they want to do it “their way”. The time needed to clean up this interpersonal teamwork disaster takes away precious time from actually completing work. Due to the team dynamic, progress is often slowed down because so much time and effort is spent either educating other team members or trying to “sell” decisions or best practices to the team. Even once everyone is on the same page, it isn’t uncommon for work to be done poorly by other team members which requires extra time to fix mistakes. Dealing with an Uneven Playing Field
Speaking of mistakes… another problem with working together is that competent team members are often held back by incompetent team members. Even worse, incompetent team members are made to look all the better because of the knowledge and hard work of the competent team members cleaning up their mess. One thing strikes me as funny. In a perfect world, working together should actually be the most beneficial option all the time, but only because all the team members would be competent in this hypothetical perfect world! I actually do think working together would be more beneficial most of the time if you could guarantee teams of only highly competent folks. Who are we trying to kid, though?