Work to build coalitions with difficult teams

摘要

"IF YOU HAVE SOME RESPECT FOR PEOPLE AS THEY are,you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are."- John W.Gardner.This was certainly true for this bunch,I told myself.I finally had the buy-in for a project scope from maintenance,instrumentation,quality assurance,validation,production,environmental and safety.As a contractor at a pharmaceutical company,I had no authority over my"team"and no control over the feuds between them.How did I get them to put aside their differences to cooperate on a team? By using several tricks I learned from a lifetime of such experiences.