So teamwork, it’s pretty obvious that working together is more valuable than working apart in a business environment but it’s not quite as intuitive why.
Everyone you know is more clever than you at something.
It’s a part of being human. We tend to build up certain skills and trade off others that we don’t think are important. Everyone does it. The result is that by mid-career you are filled with existential “holes” in your ability sets. There are two ways to fill those gaps, burn an obscene amount of time picking up one-off skills or find someone else that is better than you at it and let them do it.
Effective leaders know when to delegate tasks to people who would do them better. When you’re busy fighting with someone it’s hard to separate their strengths from all those nagging flaws you keep going on and on about. You become myopic. Myopia leads to a lot of bruised knees that brings down the productivity of everyone around you.
How much time do you spend thinking about that co-working that annoys you? Couldn’t you be doing something else with that time.
How often has office politics lead to the wrong people being assigned to the wrong tasks when a clear head could have easily fixed the problem?
Getting over yourself and learning to work together despite differences will help you earn back all this lost time, and help undo all of these useless mistakes.
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