Why do I believe that a healthy work culture is helped by the belief that company success is greater than individual success?
I’ve been parts of teams and organizations from a young age, which is vital to the belief that I believe in a greater cause. It can be as simple as a win if it it’s a sport. But that the team win is better than the merely individual accolades.
Being a part of bhajans is also a team. You have to have the lead vocal, chorus, instrumentalists, devotional coordinator, and more to make it happen. Each have a role to play to make it a high energy session.
The interesting thing here is that I’ve also been drawn to individual games and sports like chess, tennis, geography, and more. But even these have team components to it.
Hmm, if I believe that what we look for as adults is what we lacked as children, then am I drawn more to team success now because I didn’t have that as much compared to individual success in childhood?
GPA and test scores are an individual metric. I had above average of that. But were my teams growing up below average? Maybe I’ve over-indexed on that now as an adult. Wanting to sacrifice my personal achievements for team gain.
However, how do I reconcile the fact that I should imbibe a virtue of sacrifice to a greater cause with not losing the connection to myself in that process? How do I have both individual and team success? Both are equal. Perhaps.
Team success will lead to individual success, I believe. I think I believe that because I’ve seen many examples where individual success doesn’t necessarily lead to team success. Mostly within sports.
In the workplace, the interactions and decisions made reflect that they’re willing to do whatever at the expense of the team. The thing is I think when some people over-index on the individual, they believe that team success is mutually exclusive from individual success. But they’re one and the same I believe.
It’ll be good to get a gauge of where each person stands on this scale of Individual to Balanced to Collective success.
Individual success may lead to team success and it may not. So why does that happen?
I think the simplest answer is because there are factors at play that make one go up when the other goes down, and vice versa. So I think it comes back to systems. This is the integration and cohesiveness OS KPI. If it’s truly a great system, then if the individual has success, then it should be as directly related to team success as possible. And vice versa.
So measuring our organization’s systemic integration holistically and granularly will give us insight into how in sync these are.
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