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\nIn a symphony, there are no individual performers.\u00a0 There can\u2019t be.\u00a0 The whole point of a symphony is individual elements coming together to form a single cohesive vision of piece of music.\u00a0 Violins all coordinate to execute in perfect synchronicity and unison, blending to create a single voice in which none of them stand out singularly.\u00a0 This sound blends with the other strings and brasses and woodwinds who all play separate parts, but in similar unified fashions to produce yet a larger and broader artwork.\u00a0 Not only does each section have to coordinate perfectly, but then all the sections combine as well.\u00a0 If just a single individual performer tries to stand out \u2013 play a bit stronger than the rest in her section \u2013 the whole section comes apart from its fluidity and that also drives the entire symphony.<\/p>\n
You say to me, \u201chow can strong individual performers be bad?\u201d\u00a0 In fact, they are not.\u00a0 Strong individual performers are great \u2013 the problem is the \u201cup-stagers.\u201d\u00a0 Strong individual performers go back in their hundreds of hours of practicing violin with the rest of their section and they each improve.\u00a0 In effect, the perfect strong individual performer is a collaborator that improves the rest of the group.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get me wrong, the strongest performer is usually rewarded as the section lead, so there is absolutely recognition involved here.\u00a0 What is bad is the guy who goes out on performance night and tries to be stronger than he ever has been in practice.\u00a0 His section inevitably sounds bad, and that drives off the sound of the entire symphony.<\/p>\n
Individual performers must collaborate to create a benefit to the organization.\u00a0 It is the up-stagers, the ladder climbers and politicians that destroy organizations.\u00a0 Encourage and find ways for your top talent to collaborate.\u00a0 In bringing their innovations to the group, they make everyone else better, and their leadership will always be recognized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
04-15 In a symphony, there are no individual performers.\u00a0 There can\u2019t be.\u00a0 The whole point of a symphony is individual elements coming together to form a single cohesive vision of piece of music.\u00a0 Violins all coordinate to execute in perfect…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-communications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}