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How to navigate cross-functional competition disguised as collaboration

The other department heads and I meet every month to 'align on priorities' but we all know we're just performing collaboration while fighting for the same budget and resources and I'm exhausted by how much time we spend pretending we're on the same side.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You and the other managers pretend to be a team while quietly fighting over the same budget.

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