Working in groups

A common expression in English is "Two heads are better than one." In other words, two people can do a better job than one person. Do you agree with this expression? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.

This is a controversial issue and people think in different ways. Some people believe that is better to work in groups. Other disagrees. In my opinion, working in groups it is more advantageous than working alone for the following reasons.

First, you can add different points of view. When you are facing a problem, usually you only see the problem from one perspective. Instead, if you are working with more people the problem can be tackle in other ways. This happen because people have diverse backgrounds, so according to their experiences they can see other forms to abord the problem. For example, when I was working in a company, in Santiago de Chile, we had to face a problem with our clients. It was that our clients were waiting too much to be attended. At the beginning was very hard to deal with this problem, because we were all engineers and we only see the mathematical side of the things. After the first month, we realized that even though we reduce the time in which our clients were attended we needed to make our clients happier. That's why we decided to work with the psychology department. Finally all together concurred in the best solution that was to hire more employees and show some funny videos when clients are waiting. This experience taught me that it is better to work with different people to achieve the best solution.

Second, you can share responsibilities. When people work in groups usually take riskier decisions that can lead to get better results. For instance, when a company is deciding to open a new store in the city it is harder that just one person take this decision. This happen because all the pressure is on him, so if the pressure is divided in more people they will be freer to take the decision. That is why nowadays companies not only have just one project chief, instead now they assign a group of at least three people, who are in charge of the project.

Considering the points mentioned, tough some may disagree, work in groups is better than work alone like the English expression says "Two heads are better than one". The fact that you can see the problem from different points of view and that you can share responsibilities make this clear to me. With this in mind, we should all try to work in groups considering various opinions.