Working in Teams over Working as Individuals I recently   posted   this sketch on Twitter: Thanks to a few mighty retweets, it gathered a lot of views (9000 impressions, whatever that means). While that's fun and all, I still felt a bit sad that such an awfully simple insight can garner much more popularity than a thorough blog post that I put some hours into. So, rather than let Twitter get away with this, I'll steal my own content back into the blog :) The thread went like this: Pondering how to battle individualism in companies. For some, it is counter-intuitive that teams can be more responsive, faster and even more accountable than single individuals. Having "teams" in place is no guarantee that team work is happening. Be wary of too large teams, "I/me/mine", personal contact details instead of team point of contact. Good team is sailing crew, not galley slaves. Beware heroes, go-to persons, calling in favors and other shadow handling of work.…