Before introducing the two things to stop doing with teams, it's important to understand the role that teams play in organisations and what a complex organisation is.
Traditional organisations (bureaucracies and industrial/manufacturing) are predominately "complicated systems", where the principles of cause and effect with root causes, are expected to apply. If managers set actionable targets for the organisation, then managers expect people to achieve these targeted outcomes. This the logic behind setting performance targets for people, teams etc and holding people accountable for meeting or not meeting these targets.
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