http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2006/09/10/2395/individuals-have-brains-groups-do-not/ Things either exist or they don't Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:04:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2006/09/10/2395/individuals-have-brains-groups-do-not/comment-page-1/#comment-16312 What causes rants against teamwork and collaboration? « Stronger Teams Blog Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:31:56 +0000 http://www.thebinarycircumstance.com/2006/09/10/2395/individuals-have-brains-groups-do-not/#comment-16312 [...] The words It was when I started cataloging the content of the posts about Freedman’s article that a pattern emerged. The pattern? In a word: Rants. Freedman’s article seems to have unleashed passions, resulting in several rant-like posts against teamwork and collaboration. Here is a sampling of the posts I categorized as agreeing with Freedman’s views. A myth that needs to be flushed down. A brick or a concrete block can’t think because it doesn’t have a brain. A group doesn’t have a brain. You wouldn’t want a brick to think for you because it can’t. Why would you want a group to think for you? Does it make sense to base an entire political and social system like democracy on such a fallacy? Of course not. Yet every election day, we allow a group to make our decisions for us. Meetings populated by yes-men and time-wasting boardroom jockeys. [...] [...] The words It was when I started cataloging the content of the posts about Freedman’s article that a pattern emerged. The pattern? In a word: Rants. Freedman’s article seems to have unleashed passions, resulting in several rant-like posts against teamwork and collaboration. Here is a sampling of the posts I categorized as agreeing with Freedman’s views. A myth that needs to be flushed down. A brick or a concrete block can’t think because it doesn’t have a brain. A group doesn’t have a brain. You wouldn’t want a brick to think for you because it can’t. Why would you want a group to think for you? Does it make sense to base an entire political and social system like democracy on such a fallacy? Of course not. Yet every election day, we allow a group to make our decisions for us. Meetings populated by yes-men and time-wasting boardroom jockeys. [...]

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