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Everywhere, the concept that good ideas only come from groups is being pushed really hard. Microsoft's latest contribution? The term "Collaboraction" now features on Outlook help webpages. Then there's this perspective:
https://medium.com/swlh/the-future-of-leadership-from-a-millennials-pers...
The future of leadership is about understanding how people form tribes and rally around each other to achieve results that can look from the outside like they’re impossible.
When you inspire people to take action, do the right thing and respect one another, they form tribes and concentrate on doing the best work of their life rather than trying to beat each other or beat the competitors.
Once again, the idea that an individual is not important is central to the "newthink".
In my own career, most of the best work I've done has been alone. In many cases, because no leader or group would have allowed it to happen if they'd been aware of it. In one notable case, I had a first line manager support my efforts by preventing higher management from realizing how I was doing the task until it was too late to do it any other way - and this produced one of the best successes of my career.
The idea that ONLY a group can do good work is just false. I'm not saying groups CAN'T, I'm just saying they very often DON'T or, worse, WON'T.
And if this is just the new way to promote committees... leave me out.