the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing

the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing

In a situation or setting in which people are working together, certain people in the organization are ignorant of the actions of certain other people in the organization, leading to dysfunction. The contradictory emails I've gotten from that company lead me to believe that the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing.
See also: hand, know, left, right, what
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