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Cross-Functional

Cliché Management Buzzword General

A team composed of people from different departments. It usually results in a meeting where everyone agrees on the goal but no one knows who owns the tasks.

Heard in the wild

“We need to form a cross-functional task force to address the drop in user retention.”

Tone check: Cliché

Sounds great in a slide deck, but often leads to too many cooks syndrome in practice.

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