These are 10 reasons put forward by Don Carew and Eunice Parisi-Carew as set out in Ken Blanchard's book "Leading at a Higher level."
1. Lack of sufficient charter that defines the team's purpose and how it will work together to achieve this purpose;
2. Inability to decide what cosntitutes the work for which they are interdependent and mutually accountable
3. Lack of mutual accountability;
4. Lack of resources to do the job, including time;
5. Lack of effective leadership and lack of shared leadership;
6. Lack of norms that foster creativity and excellence;
7. Lack of planning;
8. Lack of management support;
9. Inability to deal with conflict;
10. Lack of training and group skills.
There are others which could be included such as lack of role models, no perfomance meassurement, too many teams, not teams but groups, emphasis on individuals and a culture of competition will erode the ability of teams to perform.
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