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You ever wonder if organizations even want teams at all? I hear a lot of people in business talk all about the importance of team empowerment and how teams are vital to the business. Then I watch what they do. At times business act in ways that positively diminish the impact of the their teams. It is almost as if the business is deliberating engaging in teamicide.
Teamicide is a term first coined in the book Peopleware, by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister. In Peopleware, they called out the common behaviors many organizations take that kill healthy teams and prevent other teams from jelling or reaching a state of high-performance. Here are their main culprits.