INTRODUCTION
Too many managers who are appointed to executive-level posts continue to view the problems they face through the lens of their own profession. So we have the situation where the accountant looks at a problem from a financial position, an engineer frames the issue in engineering terms and the marketing director sees it as a marketing issue. What they all need to do is see the problem in organisation-wide terms and tackle the problem in its entirety and not just look at selected facets of it.
This section is about managing project teams. Often such teams are cross-disciplinary and/or cross-departmental. They are a great opportunity for you to exercise your management muscles as a general manager and to show senior executives that you ...
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