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By Bob Herbold

In Peter Senge’s book The Fifth Discipline, he talks about various learning disabilities that organizations have. The one I want to talk about here is referred to as The Myth of the Management Team. It reflects the desire for management to appear as a cohesive group that is pulling in the same direction. For many management “teams,” to achieve and maintain that image of being a team, it means descent is frowned upon and that joint decisions are watered down compromises.