Is the team building industry nearing the apex of its S curve?

Notes that teamwork has long been hailed as the key to operational success but the ceaseless changes in the workplace, triggered in part by the new technologies, are raising questions about the current validity of some of the claims. Teamwork per se is the essence of collective effort but the circumstances and the environment must be wholly supportive. Today these conditions are not always present. Suggests that it is timely to divert some of the attention being given to studying the components and functions of teamwork to the factors which create it. Debate on leadership versus management has blurred the issue and perhaps we need to remember that if the direct manager of a group is not aware of the latent power of a team and is not capable of stimulating, generating and maintaining the climate for its growth, an effective team will not be born.