By team player they really mean be a total little lapdog for every idea, clever or stupid, your team leader comes up with. Surrender any independent thought or criticism (emanating from your years of education), even if for the benefit of the team or to avoid catastrophe, since stroking the team leader's ego is the most important thing. Otherwise you are accused of being some kind of trouble maker, with devious intentions of making your supervisor look stupid, even if they have said or done something really stupid -oh the crime!
It also means if you are bursting inside wanting to question something such as a figure that looks completely wrong, you must express yourself in the most wimpy subservient grovelling manner, with an introductory paragraph paying some huge tribute and never saying anything is wrong. For example saying something "looks only ever so slightly odd, but it may be my misunderstanding, in fact it must be my misunderstanding as I am so thick compared to you, my superior, not to mention unworthy! (looking at them with those 'please give me a promotion one day for all this grovelling' eyes!)" when it is as plain as day to primary school children that the figure is actually miles out etc.
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