It is crucial to spend sufficient time to ensure that you get the right people in the A-team roles to work alongside your internal team and it is best to do this at the start of the project.
Yet at the same time, the author notes that special forces A-teams were heavily involved in creating and employing Civil Irregular Defense Group units.
With recent talk of Ministerial A-Teams and the various public bodies that are involved in regional decision making, it can seem too much for those of us who are making a living in business.
Albania, Lithuania, Moldova, Malta, Macedonia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Austria, Bulgaria, Armenia, Georgia and Andorra - they truly are an appalling set of A-teams.
Two Special Forces A-teams (Operational Detachment Alpha 391 and ODA 392), comprising 26 Green Berets, three Air Force combat controllers and two other soldiers, took on a reinforced Iraqi motorized rifle company numbering in the hundreds.
In a column in The New York Times, she summarized some of the things she discovered during the year and a half she observed elite twelve-man A-teams in the Marines.
It was part of the Student A-Teams Scheme, a national initiative by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) to mark its 125th anniversary year.