One such field is programming. I refer you to Frederick Brooks' excellent book, The Mythical Man-Month. Brooks was the project leader for a huge operating system project for IBM, a project that very nearly collapsed under its own weight. Brooks' conclusion was that his approach was fundamentally flawed. Good programming does not come from big teams.
Good programming is necessarily the output of a few talented individuals.
Each software project should have a single highly talented programmer in charge of the overall effort, writing much of the software directly, while other specialists assist the lead programmer. However, the surgical team concept has not caught on among programmers. This directly leads us to the real surgical team itself. Note that a surgical team operates under the dictatorial control of the lead surgeon. There are other doctors and specialists present, but the heavy responsibilities of surgery have led doctors to evolve a functional model very close to the auteur model.