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If the efforts of individuals or groups are too independent, people often feel isolated. Schoolteachers may feel lonely and unsupported because they work in self‐contained classrooms and rarely see other adults. Forced to make a sudden shift to online teaching during the Covid pandemic, many teachers felt even more alone and burdened. One study found that more than 70 percent contemplated leaving the profession (Zalaznik, 2021). Yet efforts to create closer teamwork have repeatedly run aground because of teachers' difficulties in working together. In contrast, if too tightly connected, people in roles and units are distracted and waste time on unnecessary coordination. IBM lost an early lead in the personal computer business in part because new initiatives required so many approvals—from levels and divisions alike—that new products were overdesigned and late to market. The same problem hindered Hewlett‐Packard's ability to innovate in the late 1990s.