Every team sport is marked by cooperation. Cooperating with each other on the team, with officials , with coaches, etc. Even the spectators cooperate with each other except for the hooligans which are rare in sports when you think about it. What is your thinking about competition and cooperation? [filmsforaction.org]
As sports prove, the two are not mutually exclusive, you can have all the benefits of both. But to get that you need good planning/design, and that means honesty and a lack of greed. Meh. No chance outside of sport, and even in sports and arts, you see lots of greed and dishonesty.
@ToolGuy Yes that is how I know that it is greed and dishonesty that are the problem, because those businesses and departments which do run well on the team spirit, are exactly the ones that don't show the greed and dishonesty ethos. But no business/department lasts forever exactly because the greed and dishonesty always find a way in in the end. People like progress, and to think that they are moving forward, and because of that, when something gets to be nearly as good as it can, the only way is down. Especially because progress when seen from the outside, is always the opposite of what it is when seen from the inside.
From the outside progress is doing a little bit more with more economy. While from the inside progress is getting a little more for doing a little less, 'greed'. And when once that starts then the next year/generation wants even more for even less, but cognitive dissonance, 'dishonesty' can be used to make believe that it is justified or even a real improvement and progress, and so all social constructs degenerate and die in time.