# team (social)

a group of people who work together for a goal

- Computed level: L7 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: social  ·  Arena: concept

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social), [groups](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-groups.collection), [goal](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-goal.purpose), [work](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-work.effort)

**Through:** people join as a group and apply effort together toward a shared goal

**Novel properties:**
- coordinated effort
- shared purpose
- emergent structure

## Examples
- The 2020 Mars Perseverance rover team at JPL coordinated across 25 time zones to land the rover on February 18, 2021. *(engineering)*
- The 1998 Chicago Bulls won the NBA championship with six players logging over 2,000 minutes each during the season. *(sports)*
- Wikipedia's 2004 edit-a-thon in Oxford united 42 contributors to expand 187 science articles in 48 hours. *(collaboration)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-team.social*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-team.social.json*  
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