V. Satheesh Babu comments on teamwork.

In pretty much every seminar I’ve attended in the past 2 years, speakers have been enthusiastic to keep explaining the virtues of TEAMWORK. Some went even so far as to assert that being a TEAM in itself is the primary goal and not the WORK.

Talking about teamwork is important. Some of the software engineers that I have worked with found it very difficult to work productively with other people. The main point though should be that people work in teams to enable them to achieve more than they can as individuals. In the workplace this would mean that teams are formed to get the work completed sooner and hopefully to a higher standard. If there is no work - there is no need for the team.

In every seminar, the favorite anecdote the speakers had to quote was: Michael Jordan was once told, “Basketball is a team game and there is no ‘I’ in the word ‘TEAM’.”

I will admit to using this quote when I was speaking on teamwork but I used it as a joke.