I’d be hesitant about this. Author is from Israel. This is very much an Israeli cultural thing where they believe the individual is the issue, not the team. Maybe this stems from mandatory military service or something else - it’s not clear to me. This leads to whoever has an authoritative position dictating everything. It’s not that teams get together and decide things as a unit, there’s a dictator somewhere.

But then the dictator makes it seem like it’s what the entire team wants. And says if you go against “the team” then you’re the issue. Meanwhile, no one may agree with the dictator but can’t speak up due to whole team mentality and speaking against is breaking the team values. Effectively, you get gas lit into believing you’re the only one with an issue when possibly all your other team members feel similarly.

It’s a weird culture as an American. It definitely doesn’t prize the rebel in any sense. (I’m not saying being a rebel is inherently good) I’m not saying America doesn’t do this either.

I’ve seen a lot of group think because of this and essentially one person ends up dictating everything while making it seem like it’s really the teams culture. Eventually, people might believe it’s the team culture and forget what they even wanted in the beginning and just learn to live with suboptimal decisions that they didn’t even make. Overall, I’d be hesitant to go against the flow if you’re going to be in a company consulted by this guy. You’ll probably be fired for bringing up anything counter to “the team”. Seen it happen.