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by Super_Jambo 2082 days ago
Can you expand upon point 3? I do not really follow sports.
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There are a lot of different things but basically in Team sports its "easier" to get agreement on division of labor, on leadership, coordination and communication, individual strengths and weaknesses etc because the group has someone external to beat or atleast there is agreement on what a team "win" is.

So we try to nail that down and keep having conversations about it. It then has effect on how we coordinate, give and take, decide who leads etc

Without those conversations to provide some framework, it turns into a free for all, which reduces trust/faith in the group, esp when some new group or individual joins that have their own ideas and goals.

Aha, thanks.
People who consider themselves driven, ambitious, and intelligent often struggle to deal with teams/projects where results come from people working together instead of from one gracious person heroically dragging everyone through to the end. They have to learn to trust that everyone is there for a reason and it's not always immediately obvious.
Point 3 is also relevant to opensource/FOSS.