 It is often much easier to form a group than a team; A team, on the other hand, can be much more difficult to

form. Members of a team

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 The success of a group is often measured by its final results, not necessarily the process used to arrive at those
results; A team, by comparison, does not rely on "groupthink" to arrive at its conclusions
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 Group building can literally take only a few minutes: , but team building can take years.
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 Individual members of a group often have the ability to walk away from the group when their services or input
become unnecessary. A team member's absence can seriously hamper the abilities of other team members to
perform effectively
 A team's strength depends on the commonality of purpose and
interconnectivity between individual members, whereas a group's strength
may come from sheer volume or willingness to carry out a single leader's
commands.
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