Editing Team (section)

====Independent teams====
On the other hand, a [[track-and-field]] team is a classic example of an independent team:<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |title = Remarkable Leadership: Unleashing Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=o6B0s4_ymxcC |publisher = John Wiley & Sons |date = 2011-02-17 |isbn = 9781118047552 |first = Kevin |last = Eikenberry |pages = 147–148}}</ref>

* races are run, or points are scored, by individuals or by partners
* every person in a given job performs basically the same actions
* how one player performs has no direct effect on the performance of the next player

If all team members each perform the same basic tasks, such as [[students]] working problems in a maths class, or outside sales [[employees]] making phone calls, then it is likely that this team is an independent team.  They may be able to help each other—perhaps by offering advice or practice time, by providing moral support, or by helping in the background during a busy time—but each individual's success is primarily due to each individual's own efforts.  Runners do not win their own races merely because the rest of their teammates did, and maths students do not pass tests merely because their neighbours know how to solve [[equations]].

In the [[business]] environment, sales teams and traditional professionals (such as doctors, lawyers, and teachers), work in independent teams.<ref name=":0" />  Most teams in a business setting are independent teams.<ref name=":0" />