<P>Inter-Dependent Teams: people working together to achieve a common goal. </P><P>Extra-Dependent Teams: people learning together to develop a common practice. </P><I><P>Extra-Dependent Teams: Realising the Power of Similarit</I>y reframes the conventional mental model of teams into two complementary mental models of Extra-Dependent and Inter-Dependent Teams. Both types of team operate inside organisations today, but convention doesn¿t realise their difference. Extra-Dependent Teams are present in organisations because of their similarity ¿ they do similar work in similar ways, but don¿t actually work together. People who lead them often feel like they are herding cats. Convention cites them as dysfunctional.</P><P>But cats don¿t herd. They are independent whilst all being the same. Realising this difference provides new ways of understanding and addressing the problems that convention can¿t overcome. </P><P>The reader will be introduced to the distinctness of Extra-Dependent Teams, t