Comments on: Teamwork is a great way to sidestep office hierarchy http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/08/09/teamwork-is-a-great-way-to-sidestep-office-hierarchy/ Advice at the intersection of work and life Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:25:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Brazen Careerist: A New Age of Leadership « mick's leadership blog http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/08/09/teamwork-is-a-great-way-to-sidestep-office-hierarchy/comment-page-1/#comment-221137 Brazen Careerist: A New Age of Leadership « mick's leadership blog Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:33:38 +0000 http://lolindrath.dyndns.org/lolindrath/wordpress/2006/08/09/teamwork-is-a-great-way-to-sidestep-office-hierarchy/#comment-221137 [...] Gen X, Gen Y is uncomfortable with ranking and hierarchy, but for different reasons. Gen Y understands teamwork better than Baby Boomers or Gen Xers. Gen Y spent years being on soccer teams where everyone wins, [...] [...] Gen X, Gen Y is uncomfortable with ranking and hierarchy, but for different reasons. Gen Y understands teamwork better than Baby Boomers or Gen Xers. Gen Y spent years being on soccer teams where everyone wins, [...]

]]> By: Generation Y is too quiet, too conservative « Daily News http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/08/09/teamwork-is-a-great-way-to-sidestep-office-hierarchy/comment-page-1/#comment-188808 Generation Y is too quiet, too conservative « Daily News Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:10:14 +0000 http://lolindrath.dyndns.org/lolindrath/wordpress/2006/08/09/teamwork-is-a-great-way-to-sidestep-office-hierarchy/#comment-188808 [...] We are a teamwork generation, fully in line with each other. This, again, is a good thing. Top-down management will not survive the knowledge economy. And so, teamwork, and thus, Generation Y, is inherently conservative precisely because there is consensus, Trunk argues. [...] [...] We are a teamwork generation, fully in line with each other. This, again, is a good thing. Top-down management will not survive the knowledge economy. And so, teamwork, and thus, Generation Y, is inherently conservative precisely because there is consensus, Trunk argues. [...]

]]> By: How to lead in the new millennium | linkfeedr http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/08/09/teamwork-is-a-great-way-to-sidestep-office-hierarchy/comment-page-1/#comment-183510 How to lead in the new millennium | linkfeedr Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:53:57 +0000 http://lolindrath.dyndns.org/lolindrath/wordpress/2006/08/09/teamwork-is-a-great-way-to-sidestep-office-hierarchy/#comment-183510 [...] but classic, top-down leadership is not one of them. This is not a surprise: Because gen Y is the great teamwork generation. They did book reports in teams, they went to prom in teams, and they are notorious for quitting [...] [...] but classic, top-down leadership is not one of them. This is not a surprise: Because gen Y is the great teamwork generation. They did book reports in teams, they went to prom in teams, and they are notorious for quitting [...]

]]> By: Norcross http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/08/09/teamwork-is-a-great-way-to-sidestep-office-hierarchy/comment-page-1/#comment-110148 Norcross Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:07:59 +0000 http://lolindrath.dyndns.org/lolindrath/wordpress/2006/08/09/teamwork-is-a-great-way-to-sidestep-office-hierarchy/#comment-110148 I've become quite a fan of your blog recently, but I have to take exception to this post. While teamwork and collaboration is extremely helpful and appropriate in some cases, it's overused and detrimental in others. I still remember the push in school to "work in groups" when the assignment had no reason for it whatsoever. In my experience, situations where creativity is key, the more minds the better. But, take tasks that are very analytical and numbers-oriented, and each additional voice increases the chance for error. And that's not even mentioning the 'groupthink' mentality and ability for natural leaders to pass the buck (and responsibility) to others. All in all, teamwork needs not to be used in every situation. I've become quite a fan of your blog recently, but I have to take exception to this post. While teamwork and collaboration is extremely helpful and appropriate in some cases, it's overused and detrimental in others. I still remember the push in school to "work in groups" when the assignment had no reason for it whatsoever.

In my experience, situations where creativity is key, the more minds the better. But, take tasks that are very analytical and numbers-oriented, and each additional voice increases the chance for error. And that's not even mentioning the 'groupthink' mentality and ability for natural leaders to pass the buck (and responsibility) to others.

All in all, teamwork needs not to be used in every situation.

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