Keeping Your Factions Up for Success

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The most important thing, i think, at that scale to do is to make sure people are alligned. You can't have different egendas. The worst thing you can do as a leader is to set different factions up to play off against each other. This will be self defeating and, worse, unethical. And so defining the what is really important and how people get there, you leave it up to the team,. But we had to all be aligned on the what we are going to get to. That was, by the way, very hard for me to learn. Nw how do you communicate? How do you make it really crystal clear to people? No, this is the

Every company has its own internal factions: engineers vs. designers, East Coast vs. West, IT vs. everybody. The trick is turning factionalism into healthy competition that propels you toward your shared mission. At Motorola, Cisco, and now her start-up Fable, Padma Warrior has tapped into the power of internal divisions. It's not about separating people into warring camps; it's about building bridges from our differences, rather than divisions.

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