A team leader's first real test, is during a conflict with another team. When each team has different priorities, but depend on each other - how do you handle that? For a very long time, I thought I was good at those, and I always ‘won’ them, and got what I wanted. In reality, while my engineers respected the 'fighting spirit', I alienated every other team in my previous organization… Akash Mukherjee covered the topic in a great article, that I wish I had read a couple of years ago :) https://lnkd.in/dMDrVr-8
As much as we hate conflicts and try to avoid them, it's inevitable. Thanks for the shoutout, Anton Zaides 🙏
In any conflict we should start from basic: what is the best for the company. Fighting just to prove you are stronger or have a better position is wrong. Team leaders should find a way to agree on next steps with no thinking "I should win or I cannot lose". This position is wrong. Most important question: what will be the best benefit for the company?!