@malificent7
Surely if teams work well together then the outcome is better. In healthcare teamwork is vital especially in the operating theatre.
Well, yes, in some instances, teamwork is absolutely vital, but in those circumstances, anyone not pulling their weight and not acting as part of the team wouldn't survive in the job long as they'd get managed out pretty damn quick. An operating theatre is a good call, as would be a fire engine crew.
The difference is that sometimes, there's simply no need for a piece of work or a job to be done by a "team" when it could adequately be done by one person, capable of doing the whole thing from start to finish.
Likewise sometimes, collaboration improves the end result, such as creative tasks like advertising & marketing, branding, etc., when a pool of ideas improved the product.
I'm an accountant, in one of my previous audit employments, "teamwork" was a big issue - several staff would be on, say, an audit at the same time, all liaising, sharing the file, sharing the "books", etc., so they had to plan their respective work so that they weren't trying to access the same things at the same time, i.e. generally planning so as to not get in eachother's way - all could have done all bits of the job, so no need for Joe to do payroll and Mary to do sales - it was all interchangeable. In another firm, a similar job would simply be done by one auditor, who'd take a few weeks to do it, so there'd be no worries about planning/scheduling around others - the job just took longer in terms of overall timespan, but in reality, the number of hours spent was lower as with the best will in the world, when jobs are done by a "team", there is going to be wasted/duplicated time when one person can't do something because they're waiting for someone else to do their bit.