I think there are two important elements in team work, leadership and team cohesion. These elements are key factors in the performance of a team, because they envelop themselves human being’s nature. The human being often responds to instinctive feelings, It becomes us into a combination between mammals and citizens. It means that our thoughts are an amalgam among experiences, knowledge and feelings, which have the same background: a constant fight between “homo hominis lupus” - this Plautus’s Latin phrase means that man is inherently selfish - and cooperative principles.
In educational scenarios like this assignment, leadership and obedience to authority are understood in a different way than in job scenarios, because we have the same goal, and we are taking the same challenge, learning a second language. This learning context allowed us to share our experiences and ideas without the pressure of “be the best”. I have been worked with different kind of people and situation, but always I had the pressure for being the best. However, I really enjoy working with me team, especially for the culture combination and invaluable learning that I had.
Otherwise, working in our presentation re-enforced my ideas about obedience, because I think there are many ways to understand the concept of obedience in real life. Therefor we usually cannot figure out “when we are being obedient” and “who is the authority figure?”
