We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
Whether you reorganize a company or a team the result is the same; looks new and shiny but does it work any better...
The quote was stolen shamelessly from Glen B. Alleman's Herding Cats blog.
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