Beyond the Team Hype
Although teams are increasingly necessary for organizational success, it is a mistake to view them as the solution to all problems. As Fortune magazine journalist Kenneth Labich laments, “Weird fact of life: For every problem we face, someone has come up with a solution way too slick to be true....In the corporate world, there's that supposed miracle cure for ailing organizations—team-based management.”[2]
Like Labich, critical theorist Amanda Sinclair warns us against being seduced by the “tyranny of a team ideology.”[3] She agrees that teams are not the solution to all organizational problems. However, she goes one step farther and argues that an overzealous and naive use of teams can reinforce some of the problems that ...
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