Power of communication - 1

My team is part of large group, this is divided in to three teams and teams are lead by leaders.

We work in matrix organisation which creates dependencies among us. Teams are spread across different locations and not all team members are in same location as team leaders.

One of us i.e. team leader choose to work in isolation. To ensure his success he built good rapo with team members from other teams . This relationship is helping him in getting all work done and ensure timely deliveries.

Over the period other team leaders learned about it and made a request to him to share his plans etc which off course was refused diplomatically. we could see it is all about showing down other leaders in terms of power and achievements.

After some time impact of his behaviour was that the staff which was not part of his team was not getting recognised for their extra efforts as they were not shared with respective team leaders. Other effects were

1. Efforts estimations and plans produced by teams were always way out
2. Team size estimations were proving wrong
3. Team members were dissatisfied as they were driven by some one else and not by their team leader
4. Staff could feel the power struggle at the leadership level ,not presenting good example
5 Insecurity is built up due to directives from all possible leaders.
6. Communication is confusing.
7. Misguided appraisals.

and on the top of this, the group is directionless and scavenger are put to advantage which is not at all in favour of the progress of the group.

The great danger of achieving success like this is turning him self in a suspicious leader and who least trust his team.