Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Discussion or not for a cross-disciplinary team

Since returning to work in my country, one of the most perplexing things is the prohibition of discussion, or being treated as a villain when the person tries to share her/his thoughts or discuss ideas with the team. When a team is formed to accomplish something together, especially a cross-disciplinary one, the essence should be discussion, communication of ideas, offering suggestions, converging diverging thoughts, and ultimately finding a common solution or working model from members with diverse backgrounds to develop the desired product or launch a research topic.

However, this approach has consistently been forbidden or scorned. The person is either accused of prying into secrets, criticized for overstepping boundaries, or told to keep things confidential and not let other members know. Even obvious mistakes shouldn't be pointed out; doing so is blamed as disrupting team harmony and gets you blacklisted.


回來工作後最令我困惑的事情之一,就是禁止討論,或是提出看法要和團隊討論的時候會被當作壞人。當組成一個團隊要一起做一件事情,特別是跨領域團隊,討論、溝通彼此想法、提出建議、收斂發散的不同想法,最後找到一個來自不同領域的共事成員的共同解決方案或做事模式, 一起將想要開發的產品做出來或開展一個研究主題。但是這樣的方式一直被禁止或嫌棄,要嘛被戴上窺探機密的帽子,或是被指責踩線,不然就是被要求要保密而不應該讓其他成員知道,甚至連明顯的錯誤都不應該提出,講了就是破壞團隊和諧,然後成為黑名單成員。

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