Efforts to put in place a new role for managers as enablers of self-organizing teams, new Agile methods of coordinating work, new values of trust and transparency and continuous improvement, and horizontal communications will inevitably fall foul of the prevailing mental model of how the C-suite expects the firm to work.

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