At a CROWN CORK aluminum can factory in Texas, “The teams make and implement decisions regarding production, product quality, training, attendance, safety, maintenance, and certain types of discipline. The teams can stop production lines without management approval, stop delivery of cans that do not meet quality standards, decide whether to grant leave requests, and investigate and correct safety problems.” Seventy-two percent of Fortune 1,000 companies have at least one self-managing team, up from 28 percent in 1987.