MGI Team Project: Summary The central problem of the company Music Games International (MGI) is essentially one of conflicted leadership. The leadership hierarchy has no organization and is intensely factionalized. While one of the initial co-founders of the project named Igor sees the Harvard Business School students Henry Tam and Dana as integral in helping shape the vision and strategy of MGI, his co-founder Sasha is quite hostile to their input. Bringing in other outsiders, including a music industry consultant named Alex and a technical consultant named Dave has created an even more balkanized atmosphere.

Recommendations made to prevent or address this problem

Every organization must have a common goal and an agreed-upon structure of leadership. Even in a democratically-run organization,...

However, in this particular case, a straightforward democracy would not be an advisable way of running the company, given the hostility that currently exists between the members. Various leadership structures are available, including having a permanent leader; a rotating leadership, and combining the models by having regular managing partners with rotating leaders. It is also possible to use a facilitator or coordinator in addition to a leader to deal with conflicts.
Within this group, given the tensions that exist, it is unlikely that there would be an agreed-upon leader that all would obey without some intervention. The option of having rotating leaders is also unlikely to generate the cohesiveness that is required…