>E.g. imagine a team of several devs, a couple mbas, and a few sales people, responsible as a group for the team's financial position in the company. Strange be

>E.g. imagine a team of several devs, a couple mbas, and a few sales people, responsible as a group for the team's financial position in the company. Strange bedfellows, maybe, but if each person's success depended on everybody else in the team hitting their goals, the communication patterns could end up being quite different. You described a small business! If society and school system weren't trying to hard to turn everyone in mindless employees (MAX(salary) so everyone ends up in a few huge corps), we would see more small enterprises: the economy and people' lives would be much better.