Ittee, businessmen report, If you want to kill a project, refer it to a tea and the saying When all is said and done, far more is said than done applied more often to groups than to any other communication setting. I spite the derision directed at groups, however, people ironically have anot tendency in our society: whenever they encounter a particularly perple~ problem, they refer it to some committee or create some team charged handling the problem. In fact, our experience has been that groups tend be overused and problems which could be solved quickly and easily by individual often get bogged down in overzealous groups.