Today, we’ll tackle that problem with Michael Mankins, a partner at Bain & Company and the co-author of the new book, Time, Talent, Energy– Overcome your Organizational Drag and Unleash Your Team’s Productive Power. SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: One of the things that strikes me is, well, most managers are leading teams they’ve inherited and they don’t have the authority to reorganize their team or even to poach stars from someone else’s team. So just because other people invite people to meetings that don’t need to be there doesn’t mean you do have to invite people to meetings that don’t need to be there.