Group Dynamics: No Authority, Only Approvals

Anastasiya Kabishcheva spent more than fifteen years in technology, from technical support to custom software, project teams, and portfolio management. Difficulty communicating value inside a product company led her to an HSE master's program in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic business consulting.

Identity is an evolving set of habits, emotions, and values belonging to a person, group, and organization. An anthropological approach studies a culture's language, rituals, and actual rules before showing the company its reflection. A psychoanalytic lens also reveals collective unconscious behavior, such as a task everyone discusses but nobody performs.

A role emerges where the individual, external context, and organizational system intersect, while passion connects it to responsibility and belonging. Conflict between executives can propagate into their units. BART examines four dimensions of any group: boundaries, authority, roles, and its primary task.

Ambiguous authority gives people room to grow when leadership maintains trust and controls risk. Otherwise it produces competition for leadership, decision paralysis, and a politics of silence. A Group Relations Conference makes these dynamics observable, while connecting BART with Tuckman's stages clarifies forming and storming.