Real Team or Working Group?
Distinguish a working group from a real team using shared purpose, interdependence, and mutual accountability.
Team is a performance design, not a calendar invite. The distinction A working group is useful when people mainly need information from one another. A real team is needed when the result depends on joint work: shared choices, handoffs, tradeoffs, and a collective scorecard. Both are valid. The mistake is confusing them. The mechanism Real teams create mutual accountability. That changes behavior. People stop asking only did I finish my part and start asking whether our combined result is moving. The leader's job is to make the shared result explicit enough that members can coordinate without waiting for permission. The…
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