Re: "Team Player" - Please Define?

[bbatorsk -at- admin -dot- nj -dot- devry -dot- edu]

At 04:53 PM 2/4/00 -0800, you wrote:
>At 09:41 AM 2/3/00 , Anthony Markatos wrote:
>>bbatorsk said:
>>
>>"Pity the team that needs heros."
>>
>>Tony Markatos responds:
>>
>>I totally agree; however, in the "real" world, does anything else exist?  I 
>>truely wish so!  However, at work, in volunteer organizations (STC is a
REAL 
>>good example), and in church; I always see the same - about 2% of the
people 
>>are problem solvers, the rest are just along for the ride.

Well, I would second Marilynne's response.  I think Tony's numbers are
probably way off for the STC, and for volunteer organizations in general,
except perhaps for "Church", but in that case, being anticlericalist, I
regret people's cowardice and cheer their good sense.  No, but really, I
also don't mean to belittle heros, but good teams win more games than good
heros.  Many, if not most real heros--those who don't get financial rewards
for undermining the team--, lose in the short term, and they are often
necessary sacrifices for long term good. It often takes time for a good
plan to gain support(and all heros have a plan--that's how we separate them
from the reckless).  I try not to plan on heroics though, especially since
I have a deadly fear of heros who believe in elite, "priestly" castes whose
role is to save the 98% of us who are benighted backsliders and incompetent
technical writers. It's, then, about self-fulfilling prophecies, and I
gotta ask, "Whose real world?"

bb