Some things are best done by one person being in charge with no room for discussion. My brother and I needed to clear out our parents’ house quickly. Forty years’ worth of stuff had to be sorted and moved. We are both pretty good at packing efficiently — however we have slightly different opinions about what goes where. We had a discussion before we started as to which one of us was going to do it. Both of us working on it would have taken three or four times longer. We didn’t have time for that. There was only one voice that mattered, everyone else sang the same notes.

There are things that cannot be done by one person. It happens faster or better if the people working together know their jobs and understand how the other people in the group move around. This is seen when a team that plays well together defeats a team that has better athletes. Harmony looks wonderful on a basketball court or soccer pitch. There are differences of style or of opinion, but the coach is the one in charge and responsible for pulling everything together. He is the conductor and ensures everyone is playing the same piece of music and gets tuned to the same notes.

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