Examples of these situations would include doctors, lawyers, craftsmen, astronauts, leaders, clergymen, or other highly skilled individuals who typically work as solo practitioners. There are exceptions to this rule and they apply when they work that must be done is more than the practitioner can handle effectively by themselves. This is so because a crisis, by definition, is a high-stakes situation that is expected to get worse if action is not taken quickly. On the other hand team performance will beat individual performance when the organization faces a requirement to achieve or accomplish something that no one knows how to do. In such situations, give me five people of average IQ and we will get a better solution than any genius you can come up with.
Same thing applies where creativity is paramount.
The price for all this awesome performance is time. Teams need time to communicate options and ideas with one another, work out kinks, consider implementation issues, and interface points. There are some of those kinds of folks out there in real life. The problem is that they soon get promoted to higher levels and work group performance reverts to uninspired drudgery .just muddling through. SDWT's can very effectively replace that charismatic first line supervisor.