i'm massively in favour of flat teams - the fewer "leads", supervisors, middle managers etc a workplace has, the happier everyone is and the better the quality of the work produced (IMHO). but isn't this DNA thing a bit....macho? all this talk of mental shit-kickings and suchlike sounds like a recipe for the loudest swinging dicks in a given team to coagulate together into a clique and then leverage their collective power to override, disenfranchise or even bully their colleagues. the results are potentially horrific, no?