Luis J. Colorado wrote:
>
> How comes that a group of people with a common goal may become a team, or
> on the other hand, a committee? Maybe because they don't have a shared
> vision, but different and conflicting agendas. The question then could
> be... how can we build teams that don't become committees? How can we
> transform committees in teams?
>
> "Luis J. Colorado" <luiscolorado@home.net>
Luis,
This could be likened to the age old question "which come first the
chicken or he egg?".
Teams to me conjure a vision of a group of people enjoying a mutual
interest or activity. A committee on the other hand is a group of people
striving to attain an outcome that after compromise will be acceptable to
the majority.
One could therefore say that if you have a committee that is unanimous in
decisions made and goals strived for it is working as a team.
HelenM
--Helen Dorothea Mennitz <hmennitz@tassie.net.au>
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