I tried to go without assigning bosses on my R&amp;D engineering team, a group of about 8 people, and I did this for about six months. I thought these are creative smart types and don&#x27;t really need a boss. But after time I found, without bosses, people do crazy stuff, like sit at their desk for two days without internet&#x2F;email access and just not tell anyone about it or ask for help to fix their issue. Now, all teams have a  report and that just works better.