The New Manager’s Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Succeed in the Corporate World

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YOU CAN’T DO IT ALL YOURSELF

After you read this chapter, you should be able to:

• Clarify the purpose and benefits of cross-functional work teams and the foundational principles of team success.
• Understand team operations, cadences, and communication to become an effective contributor.
• Harness the efforts of people in other functions and to promote cooperation to achieve established goals.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

—JOHN DONNE

A professional football team is a business. If you drew an organization chart of a football franchise, you’d have a general manager, the coach of the team, and coaches for different specialties (functions). In the game of football, it is the teams ...