The team phenomenon, as we’ve described it, is something that happens only at the bottom of the hierarchy. For all the talk about “management teams,” there really is no such thing—certainly never jelled teams at the managerial level. When managers are bonded into teams, it’s only because they serve dual roles: manager on the one hand and group member on the other. They become accepted as part-time peers by the people they manage. As you go higher and higher in the organization chart, the concept of jelled teams recedes further and further into oblivion.
