There is a trend of disapproval between people of different professions. In Chinese, it's called 文人相轻．It's as if the only way to justify what one is doing is by disdaining what others are doing. For example, a person on the business would call their engineering counterpart "my service guys". Graduates of one university will bash another university as hell.
It's as if there is a only one way to thrive and that must be "my way". This almost fundamentalist view of life is partially caused by the winner-. takes-all culture of modern societies like US and China. In fact, throughout an individual's brought up, he/she routinely gets trained by succeed in the expense of others (take ranking by the exam score as one example, take popular poker games as another example). There is an over-emphasis on competition and ignorant on collaboration.
In reality, one person can never succeed on his/her own. In fact, to get anything done, it's almost always necessary to form a team that has a strong sense of bond and trust within the team. That, is the real art of leadership.
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