Indians Perform Better as Individuals than in Groups/Teams

From all the examples before us it seems indians prefer working as an individual rather than in groups. Take for example people like sania mirza, mahesh bhupati, vishwanathan anand who have excelled in their own fields of interest. And in industries there are persons like Arun Netravalli whose is the head of the AT & T bell laboratries. But there are instances were indians have performed well in teams. Like the freedom movement. Were gandhiji held the torch but couldnt have done it without the help of the other. This is the instance were an individual took the initiative and a team put it in to a successful mission.

Similar is the case with the mission of chandrayaan. Were an individuals dream was put in to action by a very big team of scientists.

Friends I would like to bring in here the aspect of Physiological and Safety needs (You might recall them as the first two steps of Mazlow's hierarchy of needs), Most of the Indians are living in desolate conditions where their Physiological and Safety needs aren't even met.

In comparison, their Nordic counterparts are well provided for. Therefore, a typical Indian is busy fending for his basic needs of Food, Shelter and Safety. This makes him more and more self dependent and individualistic, to the extent that even after these needs are fulfilled, Indians do not break away from that frame of mind. Whereas a typical American is able to work for teams because his basic needs are being provided for and he now craves for Esteem and Social needs.

Hey all, As per my point of view,

If there is good understanding, ability to ignore colleague's mistakes & help each other to improve work ability, supporting nature, helping nature of all team members in team then I think all team member can make a good working team.

Otherwise as I have seen in Indian companies indians are like crabs, they just do leg pullings of their colleagues when they did mistakes, kidding of juniors, I think Indian professional people haven't aware about professional etiquettes.

So, I think individual work is better, you can learn from your mistakes, you will face problems and you know about every work area on which you will work individually. All credits will be your's after completed assigned project.

Showing Your potential and calibre is individual is also possible but when we work in team we exchange our view, thoughts, opinions with individual to individual and when we sum-up these thought and opinions together our work efficiency will automatically increase.

If take the example of sports like cricket it require collective job to win if Virat hits century and Shami take five wicket does not mean you win the match it require proper team effort to win. I give you some another example of freedom fighter if we talk about Mangal Pandey Tatya Topye Bhagat Singh they could not be able to achieve their objective of India become independent. Then Mahatma Gandhi come into scenario with huge supporter and we attained the freedom.

In my point of view India can perform very well as individual and as a group. For example as a group Indian football team, the football team achievement is not the work done alone by Sunil Chhetri. Thus it is the hard work of each player of the team and for the passion they had. On the other hand we have World number one badminton player like Sania Mirza and Olympic bronze medalist like Mary Kom, these two struggle and face many obstacle alone.

But if I had to choose only one I will choose work as a group. Because in times of facing difficult task it is necessary to share our thoughts, ideas, opinions of each and every individual so that we could have a great outcome in order to solve the task in an easy way.

In my point of view, it depends on one's choice because there are so many examples of individuals who are better in their field. Eg. To make a cricket team one's individual performance also has been watched. Example of singers like Lata Mangeshkar, Atif Aslam, Neha Kakkar they alone are sufficient to perform better and get name and fame in the whole world.

Other examples are some dancers like Dharmesh, Raghav, Remo Desouza they also come in individuals category they started their career alone and got a name.

Sometimes if there is any dispute in a team because of two members than all team has to pay the cost for that. It is the biggest drawback of working in a team.

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I personally think that neither the individual nor the team is better but it depends on the field in which the work or task is done because for example take a look at the sports only if you are playing in Indian Cricket team it is a collective job to win the match not that Sachin only hits century or zaheer takes five wickets or so its team efforts at the same time when you see the other sports like in olympics games where in any game for that matter if its running 100meters individual has to run not the whole India will come and win the race for you.

Therefore I would say the cheer passion and courage to do the task is very important.

I think that team plays a pivotal role in attaining the organization's task in time and with greater efficiency. Our army forms different battalions and works in team to safeguard our border. Similarly in corporate sector there are teams in project when some organizational project is allocated. Although one individual may outperform others, but its team that takes the credit for that job.

Suppose in a team, one individual is facing problem in understanding something, he/she may sought help from his colleagues and likewise efficiency increases for each individual within team. Remember that a house divided against itself cannot stand.

I totally agree with the point which are given above and also according to my point of view. Indians are very well balanced people's. They know that how to work as a team or as an Individual. Actually it depends upon the type of work what we are doing working in a team require those people who know that what to do and when to do and how to do?

They have to do a proper planning about each situation and required some backup for any miss happenings. They need to share thoughts and know each other's ability and so on. So the conclusion is that Indians can work on any attachments weather as an individual or as a group.

I think that every individual is talented in some or the other way, its just that sometimes they cannot channelise their ability to perform. Some needs the support of others and are more comfortable working in teams. Talking particularly about Indians I can say that there are lots of examples where Indians as an Individual (Chess Champion- Vishwanathan Anand) have performed exceptionally well and also as a team (Indian Cricket Team) had contributed to the nation's glory.

Ideal case is when every person is able to contribute at an individual level and help the team to deliver better results.