A group interconnected, cooperative, and functional.
That’s it. Well, accept for one small added ingredient: a love of the Work.
There may or may not be recipes for cooking up a Work machine from a solo individual. I can’t say whether it is possible or not. I have my suspicions. But that’s not the kind of thing I’m involved in. So for that info you’ll need to look elsewhere.
That leaves us with Group.
If there is no interconnection then we are back to a bunch of individuals — and, that won’t work for this recipe.
Generally speaking a group dynamic is either cooperative, competitive, or a mixture of the two. In the case of this recipe it needs to be cooperative all the way.
That leaves us with the final ingredient. The group can either be functional or dysfunctional. For the recipe to be complete (and the group bake, rise, or gel) the group needs to be functional. This does not mean the group needs to be functional at money making. The measure of functional is dependent on the specifics of the group.