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Topic:179) Is it more important to be able to work with a group of people on a team or to work independently? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.
能够和团队一起工作比独立工作更重要吗?
As a senior, I will soon step out of ivory tower and have to face the problem of job. Nowadays, SOHO (small office, home office) has become a new lifestyle for a great number of people, they chose to work alone. The question of going to a big company or becoming a SOHO kind of person haunted many people for a long time. In fact, the idea behind it is working with a lot of people or working independently. For me, I value working with people more.
First of all, the task we take requires us to work with others. Thousand years ago, ancient people could work alone to get food, kill animals and build their home without working with other. The reason why they can finish all these works all by themselves and still survival is that these tasks are relatively simple, they can totally handle that. Time changes, so do the contents of tasks. Living an unprecedented complicated world, we are facing the challenge. The things we do become more complex, it’s beyond our capability, and we need others’ help to accomplish our goal. I want to take journalism as an example, as I took journalism as my major. Every time you watch CNN’s correspondent reporting news, you need to know that the news isn’t merely the effort of the correspondent. The process includes so many steps, like you need to gather news, to interview, to edit…. Each step has its own works to operate that, and reporter is just one of them. If he finishes these alone, we probably see the news months later. Teamwork not only improves efficiency, but helps us to complete huge work.
Second, working with a group of people also has advantage to lessen the work tension. For the sake of keeping their job, lots of people have to work around the clock and the stress they undertook is unimaginable. Maybe that explains why the suicide rate for work is so high. The situation could be worse if we can’t solve it. However, teamwork provides us a good solution to diminish the tension. You can pour your troubles to your colleagues; have a little gossip with them during the break. And their warm comfort or positive feedback is a great outlet for the stress and energize you in the coming tasks.
Definitely, there have some merits to work independently. For instance, there is not a lot of restriction in the work process; you don’t have to make a special effort to operate in coordination with others. And you can avoid the conflict which could break out when you are working with your colleagues.
In sum, both sides have considerable merits when it comes to work, but after carefully weighing up the facts, working with other people carries more weight than working alone, it combines little individual forces together to turn into a stronger power and enable us to perform the big project.
[ 本帖最后由 sissilei 于 2007-5-28 08:21 编辑 ] |
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