…this overlap and redundancy – these inefficiencies – are precisely what imbues teams with high-level adaptability and efficacy. Great teams are less like ‘awesome machines’ than awesome organisms.
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…when creating an interactive product, confining specialists to a silo [is] stupid: high-level success depend[s] on low-level inefficiencies.
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There is no organizational utopia. All organizational structures have trade-offs, and every type of organization has inefficiencies.
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Without clear and forceful commitment from leadership, growth teams will find themselves battling bureaucracy, turf wars, inefficiency, and inertia.