People holding different views cannot achieve success as a team.

[Icasi]

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement:
People holding different views cannot achieve success as a team.

Is it true that every member in the team should have the same opinion in order to achieve success? From my point of view, things often do not go such absolutely. Actually, in most of the time, people holding different views may have merits to succeed.

As we all know, it is almost not practical to require that everyone in a team to have the same view, because everyone is a different individual. Each individual must have his or her own personality and ideas due to their different backgrounds, even though people are facing one same issue. For example, supposed that there is a discussing team talking about the equality between the man and woman. Under this circumstance, there is no doubt that the men and women members in the team may have the different opinions, perhaps both of them are eager to express their self-protection. Perhaps men always have the views that women should spend more time and energy on family, such as doing the house work or taking care of the children. At the same time, women often complain about men’s overlooking the family responsibility, and then the debate comes. However, even though the members in team have the different views, in order to reach the final, they must try their best to find out a balance----the most important point. Back to the model of the discussing team, after the team members debated enough, they will list the key words from the both sides so as to have the conclusion--to succeed.

Moreover, sometimes different views in a team are needed to make progress or breakthrough. If all of the members in the team have the same opinion without any doubt, the final may be decided in a short time; however, the team may loss some brilliant ideas, which may lighten the whole plan. This can often been seen in some scientific research areas. For instance, I joined in a research group in my school lab several months ago to finish an experimental task from. The members in my team differentiate a lot, so we have different backgrounds and opinions usually. Yet I did not hesitate to express my different ideas in this team, I know gathering different people’s idea is good for a team work. Sometimes, my views might be seemed too simple, but sometimes I was appreciated pretty talented, who can contribute to the team rather than one always say ‘yes’ without true thinking. Thanks to all the team members’ innovation, our team succeeded to finish our tasks finally. Though we always have different views in the process, we tried to gather the merits from all the people; perhaps that is the true secret for our team’s success.

In a word, a team always holding the same view is not necessarily to be successful. We do not need to take the different voice in as team as trouble; indeed, we can learn a lot from the different views, as long as the team has a right aim.

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[Remula]

[Icasi]

Thank you so much, Remula!