How to win and play nice when working on cross-functional teams
One of the first client engagements I worked on as a management consultant was with 200 other consultants to move a company off of an internal system used by thousands of employees to a brand new state of the art system. It was a massive undertaking — Our 200 employee team was split across 12 different workstreams, and was so large that we often would clog the restaurants nearby during the lunch hour because so many of us were crowding in at the same time. This doesn’t take into…
