People Behind

Teamwork presents a variety of special challenges and satisfactions. It requires an integration of minds and contributions from individual team members, which is a practical achievement, and it represents a shared pursuit, which is a moral achievement. In its best instances team work allows members to transform individual interests into a common interest, and in the process discover a part of their own identities. Teamwork is made intelligible by the collective pursuit of victory, but moral requirements importantly condition that activity. To some extent, the dynamic of team work instantiates a basic experience of human sociality.