Rules of Management, The: A Definitive Code for Managerial Success

Chapter 88. Be Above Interdepartmental Warfare

	“If there had been investigations, which there haven’t, or not necessarily, or I’m not at liberty to say whether there have, there would have been a project team which, had it existed, on which I cannot comment, would now have been disbanded, if it had existed, and the members returned to their original departments, if indeed there had been any such members.”
	--Sir Humphrey in Yes Minister

I once worked for two bosses at the same time. They were directors of the company, and they hated each other. Each had an agenda. Each fought a vicious campaign against the other with us managers—and staff—as their foot soldiers, pawns, cannon fodder. It wasn’t pleasant. They had their own area of responsibility, ...