Cross-functional relationships: start with one!
Ethan was enthused and exasperated at the same time.
“OK, I can see there’s this model for sorting out our cross-functional relationships. Tears, tars or something, and a lot of words like audit, monitor, coordinate and stuff like that. All sounds great.”
“You don’t seem to think it’s all great” I offered.
“Well it’s not. We’ve got a million of these relationships. Everyone talks to everyone, and to go through and work out every role relationship in the place would take a decade, and wouldn’t it just turn us into a bureaucracy anyway?”
“Sure would”.
Ethan looked surprised – “but you’ve seen this stuff work before”.
“Yep”.
“So what do I need to do”?
“We fix one“.
“One?”
“Yep, one”. Read more…
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