I recently reviewed a project plan and saw one of these
click matrixed organization charts. After looking at it for a while to try and understand what was going on, I asked the next: "Who gets the bullet if the task fails? " The answer I got back was "The team gets the bullet. " Now, some of you may think I was less than tactful in asking this question, but after studying this business chart I honestly could not tell who was steerage the ship. Then when I heard that it was "The team" that was accountable I got my answer: No one was accountable. If something proceeded to go wrong on the project this structure allowed for those in leadership positions to point fingers at the other because the leadership team was a team of equals.