Working together

It has been a while that I posted on this blog…
I must apologize for such along break. I embarked on another life journey… one which should complement this blog and bring some freshness and depth to the issues that are highlighted here. I will do my best to keep this blog alive and well.
One of the areas that I have had a lot of study in the last couple of months is team work. A lot has been written and a lot is still being written on this subject matter. Here is a piece that really captures it for me. One of the challenges of team work is that people fear ‘losing their individuality’ whether it is personal goals or personal strategy but that needs to happen for the team goal to take pre-eminence. Also, without that, inter-dependency will not be possible.
Jaworski (1998) has this to say on working together: “We are all connected. If this could be taught, and if people can understand it, we would have a different consciousness. At present people create barriers between each other by their fragmentary thought. Each one operates separately. When these barriers have dissolved, them there arises one mind, where they are all one unit, but each person also retains his or her own individual awareness. That one mind will still exist when they separate, and when they come together… It is actually a single intelligence that works with people who are moving in relationship with one another. Cues that pass from one to the other are being picked up with same awareness…They are all pulling together. If you had a number of people who really pulled together and worked together in this way, it would be remarkable. They would stand out so much that everyone will know they were different” (p.81)