But he's decided to go back to college. He told me about an assignment he had. The instructor arbitrarily divided the class into groups to work on a project. He took it quite seriously and made transparencies and bound copies of his contribution. Dan was incensed, feeling that it diminished the potential of the group.
Many people have to work on teams in their workplaces.
Dan, in this case, would have been far happier to go it alone rather than to be a part of a team with members like that woman. I am confident that plenty of you share his sentiment. Teams are a technology. Like a computer or a car, a team allows us to do things that we can't do as individuals. Ideally, they are amplifiers of our selves.