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I know some instances where you are right on this issue, but I also know where the opposite tends to be more true. Small sized businesses that are late in leveraging internet technology and don't have any way to objectively weigh the information they receive from their vendors can generally benefit from letting one company take point and run the show -- as long as they've done the due diligence to know that one company can perform. The teamwork model can be a good one towards accomplishing things, but remember also that wars are typically won by the decisions of a single general who understood the dynamics between all the elements and made the correct decisions often alone and with only a moment's notice. We tend to place a lot of politically correct emphasis on the importance of teamwork, but historically, most major accomplishments were crafted by individuals and carried out by folks who grumbled along the way that it wasn't gonna work and whose opinions were never requested. Early on, internet technology and its countless elements were legitimately unknown and hacker types experimented, discovered and paved some now familiar paths. Today though we are at a point where enough time has passed where there are people in our industry that really are good, that really are just slowed down by committee decisions because they have the experience to make objectively good decisions that are not experimental in nature or in need of a consensus. Remember, leading by consensus is what a leader does when he's not completely sure where to go. So in short, clients who cannot overcome the internet technology learning curve are often better served by a responsible and accountable dictator than they are by a team of different specialists -- whether they balance each other or collide either way.