Getting your team on the same side. (Management Strategy)

Financial Executive, March, 1994 by Hansen, Paul G.

The teamwork approach of Adaptec Inc. is primarily responsible for the continued success of the electronics company. More than mere slogans and well-coordinated initiatives, teamwork at Adaptec strives to achieve interdisciplinary empathy that facilitates the attainment of real consensus on critical corporate decisions. The company's teamwork-oriented culture is maintained through interdepartmental brainstorming sessions, wherein individuals from all levels of the organizations and from all departments confer with each other. Ideas that emerge from these discussions better reflect the company's general competencies than ideas generated from individual departments. Interdepartmental communications programs are also conducted to enable employees to understand and appreciate the...

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