Calamity! The skies grew dark and my heart sank as the realization wound its way slowly from the lower layers of my intuition to the peak of my consciousness. There was just no other way; in order to deliver our latest audacious goal to market, we would need to work with that team.
Feel free to fill in the missing team name yourself, but why is it that having to reach outside your team conjures up images of doom and disaster almost before the first message has been launched into that group’s intake channel?
But cross-functional collaboration doesn’t have to be a nightmare.