Teamwork is not synchronous. When trying to maximize productivity by team members, each member will do different things independently, depending on the nature of the task. Because tasks can be run independently and concurrently in the first place when there are few task dependencies, forcing coordination and multi-person same period and tuning on them will reduce performance.

When each individual runs independently, the overhead of verbalization for information sharing becomes unnecessary, but conversely, it becomes difficult to understand “what he/she is doing.

This situation is interpreted as a “bad situation” by the type of management style that believes, “We must properly grasp the situation and give instructions and orders. On the other hand, Drucker. points out that this type of management style does not work well for expert management. → Experts cannot manage.


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