PD: “For what kind of task does which kind of organization structure fit? We have, now nobody ever has asked that question.
It is not advantageous and may not be possible to impose your organization’s structure throughout the world. There are certain do’s and certain don’ts it is still, let me say one reason why I’m not terribly as enthusiastic about the present craze for teams and let me see, I’m the one who first talked about them.”
P&G: “Sure. Why were you not crazy about?”
PD: “But it violates one of the important rules. Namely, it creates a conflict of loyalties in the team member. The project leader comes out of marketing, but the engineering department sends one or two of their people to work on that team. Who is that engineer’s superior?
The chief engineer, he is still the one in all likelihood on whom his promotion and his raises depend and the chief engineer judges by both engineering whether that may mean. And the team leader is also his boss and sets a conflict of loyalties and it’s not a good idea to create them.
And as an old chart goes back to the Romans, the Roman law says, ‘The slave who has three owners is a free man.’ ”