Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.

Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.

The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.

Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.