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. People think nothing of adding more memory to a computer or of souping-up their car with some aftermarket product. Perhaps the problem is that as individuals we tend to think of team-members as individuals, not as extensions of our selves. Consequently, we think that they should take care of themselves, that they should do their own parts of the tasks.