Committee or a Team

Having experienced of working with a Multinational and a Government Organization, I am well placed to discuss the difference between a Committee and a Team. The mentality of a committee is to spread responsibility while making a decision, which makes the whole idea to that they are here to save themselves, the decision may carry a qualification of some members that they are not with the decision. While a team may be violent inside, but to the outside the decision that they take are unified, they own the decision whether they like it or not.

While in a committee you may work against the decision, as you want to make sure that your opposition to the decision gets glorified. In a team no matter how much you are against the decision, you would work you ass-off to make the decision a successful one, because if the decision turns bad, the whole team gets burned.

In a committee you are just there to make decisions, while in a team you are made responsible to act together in achieving the objective.
 

There could be hundreds of other point, the above are crux of it all. A committee is just there to divide the concentration of fire, so that a single participant doesn't get a third degree burns.