No Single Point of Accountability
In the modern organization, as is true in life, people simply need to work towards a common vision, and they need to know who is accountable for achieving that vision. Accountability is important for guiding behavior and ensuring things get done. But most importantly, it’s a single point of accountability that keeps things clear and in focus. With the common interpretation of self-managed teams, there is no single point of accountability, and as a result the outputs of the team have a minimal chance of being consistent with the manager’s desired direction. In fact, for every objective, one person needs to be accountable and in self-managed teams, this simply is not the case.