In modern conditions of dynamic changes in the external environment and the complication of competitive relations, the team is a condition and factor for the sustainable development of the enterprise. Its formation is an important strategic decision. The purpose of this study was to identify the difficulties of forming a management team in the system of its specific features. The article reveals the relevance and advantages of team management as a new reality of business management. The advantages and disadvantages of teamwork, signs and features of the management team – the driver of organizational changes - are revealed. Its specific features are outlined: integrity and structuring, awareness of a common goal and a common vision of ways to implement it, identifiability and internal coordination of actions, relative isolation and cohesion, a system of well-established feedback communications, flexible and mobile distribution of functions among its participants. These features represent confusing ways to get out of the maze and, at the same time, leading to a "dead end" or pushing members of the management team against barriers. The difficulties of its formation at the enterprise are determined.