Causes of Team Failure:

• Team structure is incompatible with organizational hierarchy
• Lack of support and commitment from senior management
• Heavy focus on tasks and activities and none on team norms, relationships, synergies
• Members lack self discipline and don’t take ownership & responsibility
• Too many members & lack of strong structure
• Unwilling to recognize and work on stages of team process
• Poor leadership within and outside the team
• Team efforts are not used in any meaningful way
• Members have receive insufficient orientation, communication, involvement