In fact the use of power to create teams sows the seeds of destruction of those very teams. Not only does this not work but it can have disastrous consequences. They don't believe the rhetoric of the leader regarding his or her commitment to teamwork. . There is a tendency for autocratic leaders to lack the skills needed to lead a team, so that teams end up directionless and confused. Other autocratic managers supply such rigid constraints for teams, that there is no point having a team at all. .
Autocratic leaders tend to use elastic authority.
This elastic banding confuses teams since they can never tell what the bounds of their authority are, or, they realize it's all a sham, and they have no autonomy or power anyway, just the appearance of it. . When we have an autocratic executive in an organization, this makes effective teamwork at lower levels difficult, even though that work unit may have a more participatory leader. Some tasks require teamwork, while some tasks are best done by a single individual working alone. Some require a mix. If you have a predominance of job tasks that are best done independently, then productivity can suffer if you try to shoehorn them into a team situation.