Работата в екип – превенция на егоизма

Интервю с проф. Хауърд Гарднър, ноември, 2009г., София. Споделя мнението, че етиката на работат в екип, е като превенция срещу егоизма.

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Well at one time in human history, probably more things could be done individually than now. But now, in every workplace, in every scientific place, even in the arts, everything is about working with other people. So the luxury of egoism or of being a hermit or an anchorite is gone. It's passe, it's over. And the earlier you start to enjoy generally being with other people, helping them, being helped - the whole being greater than the sum of it's parts, the better. That's the way things are going to be done going forward. But even when you study carefully people who have worked alone in history, it's really because they've internalized what they got from other people. One of the most famous sayings from Newton; he said "If I saw further, it's because I stood on the shoulders of giants." And that means he'd absorbed the discipline and the synthesizing of others. And then he could go on and do something new. But especially in the West and especially in America, we way overemphasize individual agency. I've always found the comparison to Japan very instructive. In America you take credit for something even if you don't deserve it. In Japan, you deny yourself credit even if you do deserve it. Neither of those- a balance is as good.

Професор Хауърд Гарднър

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