In short order, the phrase becomes fashionable, and career-minded managers quickly latch onto the trendy idea. But, more often than not, the effort to adopt the idea resembles an attempt to squeeze a square peg into a round hole. It doesn't take an MBA to understand that the only way to insert a square peg in a round hole is to reshape either the peg or the hole.
Corporate teams are a perfect example.
The idea of forming teams to accomplish tasks is a worthwhile objective. That's not to say they initially have to agree on how to reach that goal. Team members must not be in competition with each other. If you ignore that stricture, ego clashes are sure to follow, guaranteeing failure of the team's project. A Better Way to Learn As an experiment, gather your accounting staff and suggest they spend an hour or two together, sharing with each other some of the work shortcuts they've developed for themselves.