Even in your worst nightmares!

Good teams can survive almost any amount of management's incompetence and will probably make their feeling known at some point. Indeed, the only way to stop a really dedicated team from being successful is to either disband them or stop the project altogether. Here is an example I once saw; The team in question were itching to get on with their job but felt they were being hampered by their bosses, and in particular a great deal of unnecessary politicking. They therefore an indicator on the wall with these titles;

CHANGE PLATFORM
CHANGE LANGUAGE
CHANGE LOCATION
CHANGE SUPPLIER
CHANGE METHODOLOGY
CHANGE SPECIFICATION


They would spin an arrow on a regular basis and the message quickly went round that they wanted to get on with the job if only people would stop changing the rules of the game.