14 In our experience, these teams produce us very ...

14 In our experience, these teams produce us very impressive results. However, as the companies 15 we work with can tell to you, they are neither a ‘soft option ’ nor a ‘quick fix’. 16 self-managed teams operate in dramatically different ways from the other 17 teams and they can only succeed in if the organizational culture, along with a 18 number of systems and procedures, are been re-shaped. Thus, changing to 19 self-managed teams requires not only most top level support but a clear 20 understanding of the concept which at all levels. Often staff who find themselves 21 at the lower levels of a traditional structure imagine that by operating in self- 22 managed teams simply means by that they will be free to do what they want 23 without having to be obey the orders of upper management and this simply is 24 not the case. One of the most important areas we address with our clients 25 is the need to re-educate staff with a regard to the practical meaning of the Word ‘team’. Such re-education is required from shop floor to board level.