I work at a company where this ideology is implemented. There are no "managers", and we are expected to manage ourselves. The company has divided itself into

I work at a company where this ideology is implemented. There are no "managers", and we are expected to manage ourselves. The company has divided itself into 2 camps: 1) Design guru - this person does not need to collaborate with anyone (i.e. the mechanical engineer is perfectly competent at designing electronics) because they already know everything. They don't speak to anyone else in the company until they mess something up, at which point they just ask someone else to fix it for them. 2) The other group is perfectly capable of collaborating and working with other people. This group gets things done elegantly and efficiently. In other words, if group 1 and group 2 were given the same task, group 1 people would end up with a kludge that took twice as long to design than group 2. So what's the balance? When interviewing job candidates, how do you determine what kind of employee you will be getting? What do you do about the people you already hired?