Marc Randolph, co-founder of Netflix, once said, "Stop telling me your company is like family... it's not. At Netflix, for example, we never thought of ourselves as a family. We always considered ourselves more like a sports team."
Products more often die from suicide than murder. To succeed, teams need more than cross-functional collaboration. They need alignment and a shared mission. But that is easier said than done when functions, incentives, and egos collide.
In this talk, I'll share the mechanisms I've used to build high-performing product teams, drawing from my experience as a former athlete and coach. I'll also show how I used these mechanisms to help turn around a team in a toxic environment.
This talk is for anyone who leads or works on a team and wants that team to succeed.
