What Would Lance Armstrong Do?, Part 2

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  "Know your Task, But Keep Flexible." Really ?

  I'm quite against this one.
  
  Many people (often the weak ones) believe that team work means making things work no matter what you have to do for that.
  
  This mindset does not push people to improve their skills and learn what they need to know to "survive", as they assume that there'll always be someone to do the job.
  We end up in the classical scheme where 20% of the staff will do 80% of the work.
  Being in the 20%, I find myself doing a lot of things that are out of my scope for the simple reason that I'm able to do them the right way, which is everything but pleasant.
  
  I rather believe that a team is like a body where staff members are organs. They have specific functions, tasks, that they have to performs. If each and every "organ" plays it's role, then the whole thing is working properly.
  
  "Flexibility" often hides the weaknesses of some team members in their specific scope of work that are compensated by others who are assigned another part of the job, and who'll have to work more and harder.
  
  The result is that as long the job gets delivered, the management will not realize that these "weak links" are unable to do their whole part of the job.
  They use "tricks" to keep their position whereas they should have trainings or get fired if they're neither willing nor able to upgrade their skills.
  
  Finally the skilled but frustrated employee will leave the company, seeking a better work environment and the enterprise will be left with the weak ones.