Talented or Higly Intelligent People
“The aggregation of highly talented or highly intelligent people does not necessarily make an effective team.”
Talented people can help a team perform in a high performance level to meet its specific goals. However, talented people can also instill a sense of disharmony within an already effective team. Robertson and Abbey (2003) acknowledge that having talented people in a team requires having different values and motivation from the majority of the people. This statement can be seen with various situations happening around us to events across the world through different industries and even to sports. Cases like F.C. Real Madrid’s (A highly decorated Spanish club soccer team that has won numerous trophies in Spain and European leagues) superstar buying policy, and NBA Lakers’ personality clash between Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant, has proven that talented people would not make an effective team. Woodruffe (2006) states that having a great deal of autonomy, where people can really get into their role in a team/organization is likely to be welcomed. However, having too many talented people in a team would only cause a team to lose its focus and not be able to achieve its goals. By having too many talented team members, they may have the impression that they are better than the other team members. Thus, this could result in an egoistic/prideful decision that they should be the person leading the team and not requiring them to be a team member. Lewis and Slack (2003) agrees, that highly talented people are understandably reluctant to apply their abilities to projects, that are undervalued and an online article by Colvin (2006) from CNNMoney listed the following as reasons that having too many talents within a team fails:
• Signing too many all stars
• Failing to build a culture of trust
• Tolerating competing agendas
• Letting conflicts fester
• Hiding from the real issues
Without going in-depth on these, it will be shown that these are issues that are
Talented people can help a team perform in a high performance level to meet its specific goals. However, talented people can also instill a sense of disharmony within an already effective team. Robertson and Abbey (2003) acknowledge that having talented people in a team requires having different values and motivation from the majority of the people. This statement can be seen with various situations happening around us to events across the world through different industries and even to sports. Cases like F.C. Real Madrid’s (A highly decorated Spanish club soccer team that has won numerous trophies in Spain and European leagues) superstar buying policy, and NBA Lakers’ personality clash between Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant, has proven that talented people would not make an effective team. Woodruffe (2006) states that having a great deal of autonomy, where people can really get into their role in a team/organization is likely to be welcomed. However, having too many talented people in a team would only cause a team to lose its focus and not be able to achieve its goals. By having too many talented team members, they may have the impression that they are better than the other team members. Thus, this could result in an egoistic/prideful decision that they should be the person leading the team and not requiring them to be a team member. Lewis and Slack (2003) agrees, that highly talented people are understandably reluctant to apply their abilities to projects, that are undervalued and an online article by Colvin (2006) from CNNMoney listed the following as reasons that having too many talents within a team fails:
• Signing too many all stars
• Failing to build a culture of trust
• Tolerating competing agendas
• Letting conflicts fester
• Hiding from the real issues
Without going in-depth on these, it will be shown that these are issues that are