If you want to go fast, go alone …
Quote of the day: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with a team”.
Camera On. Action. A japanese football club owner, a german engineer, a french finance controller, a greek high school principal, a norwegian finance lead, a canadian operations manager and a nigerian transaction manager are in a room with a survival exercise to complete in a short amount of time … after 1h of discussion they have only managed to complete 20% of the task … we need to decide on the 15 most useful tools to survive in the Arctic
10minutes left to the deadline ….”We need to take the maple syrup!” - “We need to take the matches!” - “Please stop interrupting me everytime!” - “Get to the point” … the tension is running high and we still don’t have the solution. Soon the time is up, the survival exercise is over and we have not completed it in time. We all wonder if it wouldnt have been easier to do this exercise on our own, instead of taking all this time to do it with a team …
In real life, we would all be dead frozen in the Arctic … thank God this is just the 1st simulation of the year. After a bit of calculations we discover that the average of the score of the team after the exercise was better than the average of the individual scores before. This means we made smarter decisions about survival in the Arctic when working in a team… even if none of us was an expert on this topic.
… all this talk of Maple syrup made us hungry, time for Pizza!
