Some people think that cooperation is not a critical ability these days. However, in my opinion, the ability to work with others has been more important than it was before. This is because it is necessary to solve global problems and modern businesses rely on cooperation.
First, solving global issues such as climate change and air pollution require people to work together. Since these problems are widely connected to many countries, it is impossible to resolve this kind of problems by one country. Thus, cooperation takes an important role to solve global issues. The reduction of CO2 is a good example of this. To prevent global warming, many countries have to reduce the amount of CO2 that they produce. However, it is unfair to force developing countries to inhibit the CO2 emission since they do not possess any state-of-art technologies to produce goods without the CO2 emission. Therefore, developed countries should give technical and financial support to undeveloped countries so that they can sustain their economic growth and reduce the CO2 emission to restrain global warming.
Second, modern businesses highly rely on cooperation to be successful in the global market. As the competition among companies in the same field has been greater, many companies tend to work with other companies to develop better products for their customers. For instance, people want a cell phone with more functions these days. They want to take better photos and listen to music with better sound quality by cell phone. Moreover, they also require a high-performance processor to play a mobile game on their cell phones. To meet the customers’ requirements, cell phone makers should work with camera module manufacturers, digital audio software companies, and computer processor makers. Thus, the ability to cooperate with people engaged in other fields has been very important at present.
In a nutshell, taking global issues and high dependence on cooperation in business into consideration, the advantages of working other people far outweigh the disadvantages of it. In this regard, I firmly believe that being able to work with other people is very important than it was before.