What's New FAQ on Teams and Leadership Teams and Leadership FAQ Answers to frequently-asked questions about teams, leadership, and Partnerwerks services. Sometimes called the lifeboat principle, i.e., when people are in the same boat together, individual differences and outcomes matter less than the collective outcome. People who don t care as much as others about a shared outcome become dead weight, i.e., free loaders. Flat social structure. Rank does not imply correct judgement.
People commit to what they have a say in designing.
Lots of people say that there are different types of teams. For our money, though, a team is either a team or it's something else. A group is any assemblage of people regardless of whether outcomes are shared. All teams are groups, but not all groups are teams. All departments are groups, but not all departments are teams.