I also discovered that I was playing with fire. Whenever I got a team ready to be really useful, there would be a bizarre negative reaction from all sorts of ot

I also discovered that I was playing with fire. Whenever I got a team ready to be really useful, there would be a bizarre negative reaction from all sorts of other people who were employed within the same organizations, but were not part of the teams I was working with. Have you ever been working in one of those organizations and your coworkers goad you into not working so hard? They say things like, "You're making us look bad." or "Take the day off early." Little things like that. Some have more humor in them than others, but everyone wants to work as little as possible for as much money as possible. If a super team comes in and makes work look fun and easy and they actually accomplish a lot, it raises the bar for every other team and even individual in the organization. Like little self-organized unions who pressure other union members through psychological stress and booby traps. This is the same problem afflicting our culture at every level, from kindgergarten to the board room to the white house. It has created the mess we are in right now.