If you studied Social Studies in junior secondary school, you probably memorized the textbook advantages of partnerships and team management. One line my teacher, Mr. Mbah, emphasized was: “joint hands in making management decisions.” We recited it faithfully, preparing for exams, without truly grasping what it meant in practice.
By senior secondary school, the Economics subject deepened that lesson through the concepts of division of labour and the factors of production. Expertise matters, even the entrepreneur, the so-called “risk taker,” cannot achieve much without labour, coordination, and shared effort. Enterprise is not a solo act; it is the deliberate construction of a working team.
The same principle holds everywhere: when a company, a family, a society, or a nation functions as one team, it outperforms the sum of its individual talents.
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Usain Bolt ran the fastest 100 meters ever recorded: 9.58 seconds. Yet four Jamaicans, running together in the 4×100 meter relay, completed the race in 36.84 seconds. On average, each covered 100 meters at about 9.21 seconds. Simply by running together, they collectively outperformed the best individual record.
The message is simple and enduring: collaborate, partner, and advance together.
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