The lure of drowning in the summer holiday’s great joy is not easily resisted. Everyone is going to refresh himself after being busy working for such a long time, for which one of my classmates was left along by his other three partners to prepare for their experiment.

About 2 months ago, they 4 guys made it to apply for one project and the team made a plan that they would stay to finish the experiment in this summer. And here is the time but regretfully, three of them went back home to enjoy the vacation while only one person, not the leader of the team, was abandoned here. That meant the one left had taken on all responsibilities. He had got to devise the experiment plan, ask their professor for help, polish the plan and compose the experiment report no matter how long it would take. Sadly, he told me he’d got so regretted and helpless after promising to have the experiment well handled.

No doubt, it seems impossible for him to get through the hard-pressed situation because that task was for the whole team, not for any single. The task needs to be done with the joint efforts of the four. Ridiculously enough, the escaped three have made fool of the left one. They have avoided their responsibilities for empowering the team and taking care of each teammate.

I would rather stop to think that three guys abandoned their teammate on purpose. It is unvirtuous and disturbing to play a trick on teammate. Obviously, those escaped have relieved themselves from the boring procedures of the experiment. But that have made the left one suffered. Besides, their self-centered conditioning was so deeply rooted they can’t make the leap to reinforce the lessons they had learn in practice and to get them to embrace the concept of selflessness wholeheartedly. Worse still, if the left one fails to have a better handle on the project, the imperial glory of the team would be a blur, which would dismiss their awareness of what the team is doing as a whole.

Just as Phil Jackson once said in the book Sacred Hoop, “This is the struggle every leader faces: how to get members of the team who are driven by the quest for individual glory to give themselves over wholeheartedly to the group effort.” To be brief, playing tricks is not allowed to happen to a team and it matters for empowering a team that all members of team are willing to surrender the “me” for the “we”.