Today a colleague told us about the time he were doing his internship, 30 years ago. He recalled that there was a big rivalry between the Azubis and the Praktikanten. He said their manager had cultivated this attidute. I made the question “Didn’t he try to make you a team?”. My colleague laughed “Team is a modern thing” he said. “By this time there was no team”.

His story made me think of my school years. We never had a work to do as a group. Twelve years at the school I learnt to act on my own. One man show, no dependencies, no compromises. Only the punishments were in a team spirit ☺. It is difficult to teach teamwork if you haven’t lived in it.

In the rest of my life I ‘ve tried to conform to several forms of teams. Friends, university, relationship, family, work. I’m sad to discover how unwilling I am to work as a team. It is also difficult to learn teamwork if you haven’t grown up with it.

Why do we have to learn it? Isn’t it natural for human beings to live together with other people? A spark needs a team to be a fire and a person needs a community to flourish. But is that right? Do the human beings need a team? I think there is no doubt, the answer is yes. The right question is what kind of team the human beings need. It is easier to answer this question if we think of our family. How I wished my family when I was a kid?