Many times I will look at a business that claims to have teams or even claims to be a high performance organization only to find employees that do not understand what they are expected to do.  You may wonder, what are they doing all day?   Well they are being reactive, These people are not working on or from a plan, they are completely reactive.  They do not know how they fit into the big picture and many do not even realize that they are part of a team. Nobody has communicated clear expectations related to any business goals or vision.  What they get are expectations related to technical skills. Kind of like do not make any mistakes writing this letter. That is OK, but they have no idea why they are writing the letter.  This sounds like a simple flaw to fix but it is not.  I find this in almsot every business I evaluate.   I suspect that the reason for this is that the leadership is really focused on the old management model and not really focused on teams or high performance.   They never see the full benefits of a well coordinated team.  They lack trust of the team concept. They are so focused on the day to day activities that that nice strategic plan they did or the nice speech they made about going to high performance teams have been forgotten. The end result is they claim that a team approach just will not work for them.  It is kind of a self fulfilling prophecy.