Internal collaboration between teams is essential to keep firms competitive, but it often fails because teams won’t work together.
You’ve provided the resources and the support for an internal collaboration which should, in theory, produce positive results but, in practice, your teams resist working together and the collaboration stalls. What did you get wrong? Writing for Harvard Business Review, Lisa Kwan explains that failing to plan for disruption of group dynamics is a blindspot that, unless addressed, generates resentment and even hostility between teams.
EXISTENTIAL THREAT