No, it is inefficient for all team members to be tied into the priorities of and in communication with all other relevant parts of the organization. Specializat

No, it is inefficient for all team members to be tied into the priorities of and in communication with all other relevant parts of the organization. Specialization is good. I often feel like people started swinging the pendulum away from manager-as-micromanaging-supervisor, and just letting it keep swinging to managers-are-pointless, and failed to notice when it swung past the useful managers-as-support-staff equilibrium point between those extremes.