On 2020-10-20, Ahem A Rivet's Shot  wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 19:26:34 -0000 (UTC)
> Martin Gregorie  wrote:
>
>> So what do I understand by 'team'?  In most of the places I've worked
>> since the late '70s, teams/groups/projects, call them what you will, had
>> a boss but his job was primarily to stop intra-group squabbles and, much
>> more rarely, to keep everybody heading for the same goal. In many of
>> these, the boss was not the designer, but in all of them ideas and
>> suggestions were encouraged by both boss and designer/design team and in
>> none of then was a suggestion slapped down though it might be refused
>> with reasons. That's what I understand by 'team work'.
>
>  That's a pretty good description IMHO.

That sounds like the way it should work.  Unfortunately, it's not always
the way it comes out in practice.  I experienced a management invasion
where the new bosses constantly preached the virtues of teamwork,
while systematically destroying the smoothly-operating teams that
had been in place for 10 years.

A poster went around:

    Together
    Everyone
    Achieves
    More

I came up with my own version:

    Tied up in
    Endless
    Aggravating
    Meetings

My wife is currently going through the same hell elsewhere.

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