
← The Leader's Mindset15 sept. · 4 min
What to Say When Two Teams Won't Work Together — Leadership Skills
<p>Leadership is what turns two warring teams into one. When Sales blames Ops and Ops blames Sales, you don't have a people problem — you have a scoreboard problem.Two teams playing two different games will call each other the enemy, and the harder each one works, the deeper the trench gets. Meanwhile the customer is the one paying for it. Harvard Business Review found that 75% of cross-functional teams are dysfunctional — missing on budget, schedule, spec, or what the customer expected. So if your teams can't get along, you're not broken. But normal here is expensive.In this episode, Jason LeDuc gives you five tactics — plus a bonus — to get two departments pulling in the same direction, drawn from rooms where engineers, maintainers, and aircrew all saw the same mission differently and turf could get somebody hurt.What you'll learn:- Leadership skills for naming a shared enemy so both teams stop aiming at each other- How one shared metric ends the fight that two separate scoreboards started- The one After-Action Review rule that makes a joint debrief safe: attack the process, never the person- Why trading seats for a single day ends a turf war faster than any meeting- How to turn a fuzzy handoff into a written contract both teams can holdThe leadership move most managers miss: publicly catching one team helping the other. What gets recognized gets repeated.Ready to turn two warring teams into one? Find Jason's leadership programs and book a discovery call at <a href="https://www.leducleadership.com/bethebossprogram" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.leducleadership.com/bethebossprogram</a></p><p><br></p><p>🗞️ Stay informed without the noise: I use <a href="http://informed.now/" rel="noopener noreferrer">informed.now</a> every day — the day's news texted straight to you, free of bias, clickbait, and ads. Try it: <a href="https://infmd.co/jld" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://infmd.co/jld</a></p><p>Disclosure: This description contains an affiliate link. If you upgrade to <a href="http://informed.now/" rel="noopener noreferrer">informed.now</a> premium I may earn a small referral, at no extra cost to you. I partnered with them because I use and believe in the product.</p>