21 leaders on making cross-functional collaboration work

Teamwork makes the dream work. It is cliché, and yet true. But teamwork often involves multiple departments and various roles, each with individual goals and priorities. As a cross-functional collaborative team, it’s important to recognize where everyone is coming from and how those objectives can be reached from a company perspective. Sometimes that means dialing down individual ideas to serve the greater good. That is hard to do and it requires good leadership to corral everyone around that…