Key skills are brought in and membership controlled. Those involved at the recruitment boundary can enjoy high status with those who join the organisation. Autonomous groups and departments who can defend their position are powerful. At the boundaries individuals compete for control. Those acting from self-interest, knowing or not knowing the effect they have on others, may threaten organisational autonomy and cohesion.
Frustration can set in.
The weak linking-pin manager fails to win the resources and permissions that the lower group needs. Members of the group may seek to short-circuit the weak link by going directly to the boss's boss.