Top Ten Issues: CROSS-FUNCTIONAL STRIFE

Authors Roger Connors, Tom Smith and Craig Hickman listed top ten organizational unresolved issues which keep popping out regularly during their training and consulting projects. This week, we are at issue#9 - Cross-Functional Strife. It is an attempt to answer the perennial question - "Why can't we just all get along?"

There interesting thing about strife or conflict is that nobody has bad intentions. In fact, everyone wants to do a good job (generally). So, how can a group of individuals with good intentions still end up having strife? The danger is that in organizations with different functions - that which is diverse can potentially divide. Some would call this a case of "growing pains" - an inevitable corporate reality because as the company grows, so do the negative dynamics of human behavior.

Instead of being "cross" with each other, this week's video explores three reasons why cross-functional strife happens (despite good intentions) and how we can practically leverage our diversity for strength rather than allowing it to disintegrate into an all-out turf ware. With an ever increasing competitive marketplace, organizations cannot afford to be consumed with internal cross-functional battles at the expense of what really matters. Fight the good fight - but not against fellow comrades.

"One can acquire everything is solitude except character" ~ Stendhal.

Видео Top Ten Issues: CROSS-FUNCTIONAL STRIFE канала Joseph Tan