Indians Perform Better as Individuals than in Groups/Teams

Hi to all. Friends i believe that it wont be appropriate to say that indians perform good in team or as an individual,they perform better. I think the primary reason being we have to categorise our discussion. For instance, take literature, science etc, these are the fields where individual performance is a must. Now look at the other side of the coin, fields like politics, sports, corporate house etc, they are more of a collective team-work.

Some of my friends have stated very good examples of Anna Hazare, Arundhati Roy, Bhagat Singh, Mahatma Gandhi, Rajat Gupta etc. Needless to say that they have all set benchmarks in their respective fields but I must make a mark here that it all matters to the field you are working in. When we talk of big enterprises, they have a business environment in which individual as well as team-work, both matters a lot.

We say India is an Agriculture-driven land,but we look in the deep roots, even that is a collective effort. The food grains available in the market is a chain supply from the farmers to the brokers and government and finaaly to the retailers.

Not to mention that we have the second biggest workforce in the world. We have many hands to work and many heads to eat. We have been taught since our childhood to live in a united culture and as we grew up, the fierce competition teaches us to be ahead of others. Thus focussing more on individual work. As we move onto the business world, we learn to gain competitve edge from others though working with them.

So i must say it all depends on the environment,the type of work-field,the competition etc.
It will be wrong to flip a coin and say that indians are good as team then individuals or vice-versa.

Hi friends.

I accept the topic that we Indians work better individually because, Indians have an inbuilt leadership skill that the people of other ethnic group doesn't possess. Having these leadership skills it is difficult to constraint us to a small team and do petty jobs. We are all born leaders. Destined to change the face of the world.

Alrophin says.

"The world is destined to have its leaders from India. ".

Albert Einstein:.

"We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made".

To name a few.

1. Rajiv Gupta is the GM of Hewlett Packard.

2. Vinod Khosla is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems.

3. Sabeer Bhatia is the founder and creator of Hotmail.

4. Arun Netravalli is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs.

5. Vinod Dahm is the creator of Pentium chip.

6. Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart. Goes on.

So these skills are something that we have inherited from our ancestors.

But the regretting fact is that the companies from foreign countries have understood this unique ability of Indians and have employed lots and lots of our people but we still don't understand this and keep them underemployed.

Hope the scenario changes and we Indians rule the world.

Indians perform better in both team as well as individual. Every person has hidden talent and attitude, they better know which thing is to use at what time in the right time and place. Talking about their role as a individual or in group it is like in cricket, football and hockey each player gives their best for their team. But some tough situation comes like "the last wicket is remaining and the team needs to win 6 runs from 4 balls" at that time it is responsibility of that particular batsman in the pitch to take the match into his custody.

With respect to actors like Mr. Shahrukh Khan or Mr. Akshay Kumar and many more they have just grown from a ground level with lot of hard work and when they work in team they encourage the whole cast to perform well and tackle every tough situation which comes in between the film.

But in IT sectors people have to work in a team because on which project they are working will be based on different techniques, so they if they work in group or team they can easily handle every part of the project and the project can be completed with the given deadline.

Hence, you work in group or in individual you have to be down to earth, so that you get lots of appreciation and support from your team mates and other senior employees of your work place.

Thank You.

Hi friends,

Earlier in 90's management studies were not very common in India and therefore, a few were having the idea of the group characteristics. During that period, being ignorant to the different stages of a group, Indians preferred to work as an individual. Off-late, with more and more students opting for management studies, we understood that group has stages viz. forming, storming, norming and performing.

So the argument within the group, which were earlier considered as impediments for accomplishing any given task, are now being considered merely as stage of group and we know that all these arguments are leading towards giving the best ideas resulting in fulfilling the responsibilities perfectly.

The best example for groups, performing better than an individual is the Self Help Group in the field of micro finance. These SHGs are being considered, all over the world, as better option for extending financial assistance as compared to financing to an individual.

So I would say that the present era is the era of working in group and another example, in Indian politics, is the collation government and contesting elections with allies, which now a days is said to be the future of Indian Politics.

Hey there, fellow forum members!

I wanted to share my perspective on a topic I've observed, and I must say it's quite interesting.

Over the years, I've noticed that many Indians tend to perform exceptionally well as individuals rather than in groups or teams. It's not to say that working as a team isn't important or fruitful, but there's a unique strength in the way individual Indians often excel.

One aspect I find fascinating is their determination and dedication. When working solo, many Indians display an incredible work ethic, often going above and beyond to achieve their goals. The sense of responsibility and ownership they take is truly remarkable.

Another thing to note is their adaptability. Whether it's in the field of technology, academia, or arts, many Indians have a knack for adapting to various challenges, which sometimes shines even brighter when they're on their own. Their ability to stay focused and innovate in solitude is truly impressive.

Of course, these observations aren't true for every Indian, but I've seen numerous instances where their individual brilliance truly stands out. It's essential to recognize and celebrate these talents.

Hello friends,

Everyone have different skills, different knowledge and different attitude which determines the success of a person. In my view, if an individual can succeed individually so he/she can create magic in groups where a lot of different skills, knowledge and attitude would combine. India is country where people compromise as much they can and obviously they are too much cordinative also. As we can see there are many examples where team work succeed. For example, you can take current political party if our Honorable P. M. Narendra Modi would work individually and other members of the party would not support him so is it possible that he would work in such efficiency as he has done, obviously never. Another example I want to quote is that most projects are planned with teams not individually reason being everyone knows that in a group an individual can think about various riddles with the discussion of other members and determine various pros and prone related to it also. So in my conclusion, I just want to say that Indians perform well individually but when they work in the group they will do magic where they feel security or safety also.

Friends, i really appreciate the points put forward by all of you. When we look at Indians, we can see a mixed pattern. For example, take some freedom fighters like Bhaghat Singh, Tantia Tope, Mangal Pandey...all were good but were not able to achieve their primary objective of making India independent...but it was only when Mahatma Gandhi came into senario with his huge supporters, we attained freedom. The same applies to Mass movement against corruption led by 74 year old Anna Hazare. Here one can see that Indians have done well in groups.
But we cannot also ignore the achievements of people like Abhinav Bindra, Susheel Kumar, Saina Nehwal, PT Usha, Karnam Malleshwari, etc who made our country proud in olympics. These are few names of Indians who excelled as individuals than in groups.

Therefore, we can say that Indians are good as individual as well as in groups.

I totally agree with the phrase.

"united we stand, divided we fall" at times team work counts a lot. Showing your caliber n potentialities individually is also possible but when we work in team we exchange our ideas, thoughts, opinions, views etc. Ideas and thoughts do vary from individual to individual and when we sum up all those different ideas of an individual together our work efficiency enchances automatically which brings efficacy and better outcomes. On the contrary its preety difficult task to conclude whether working as an individual is better than working in a team or group. Both conditions depend upon the type of work we do. As stated above the example of "Vishwanathan anand (working individually) " and "indian cricket team (working in a group) so our main focus should always be on our utmost efficiency either working as individuals or in a team.

Well, it depends. Some people perform better when they work alone and some people are more comfortable in teams and groups. Both has its own pros and cons. I would say that working in teams are good when it comes to projects, startups, group activities. The ideas and performance of the entire team is pooled in together to create something beautiful. But this doesn't hold good when it comes to heading an industry or business. I personally do not believe in partnership when it comes to business. This is because, during the course of time, their ideas might change. This causes friction and it might even lead to liquidating the company (assets and shares). Therefore its always better for an individual to head a company or a business and team of managers to work under him/her for the an industry to perform well.

I think many answers are biased. Any individual cannot perform without a team. Even if we talk about a football player or a politician or Saniya Mirza or M S Dhoni it is same for everyone. Everyone only performs in a team. Everyone can only give their outcome in a team. Yes, of course, there will be differences which can be cleared after discussing over that. I don't think football player can perform individually if he was been trained by 3 to 5 people who were working in a team. I don't think that M S Dhoni could have performed if he wouldn't go through the training which was given to him by his group of trainers. I think any individual cannot work or succeed alone. If he or she works in the group then only he or she can succeed and make many more successful people in future.