Notable Cross-Functional Teams
This billionaire inventor used myriad iterative processes before completing his signature metal suit and eventually doing a whole lot of avenging.
Who is Tony Stark?
It's this term for when daylight fades or for the phasing out of a program.
What is sunset?
We could have had it all with this 2010 Adele song and another name for an in-depth meeting.
What is Rolling in the Deep Dive?
The act of making commitments to change as the calendar moves to January 1st.
What is New Years Resolutioning?
The first appears on a cold glass or a bathroom mirror. The second refers to the combining of two or more organizations into a single entity.
What are condensation and consolidation?
The nickname for this group of American tumblers, who proved to be the right combination of agile and nimble, on their way to claiming the first team gold medal on international soil. McKayla is still not impressed though.
A tool to ensure alignment with the organization's goals and to keep people on the right path. You might also want these on your kid's top bunk.
What are guardrails?
A repeated lyric in the 2016 hit song by Rihanna featuring Drake, and this name for a task-oriented planning group
What is work, work, work, work, work stream?
The act of removing tiny eye individual eye lenses and storing them for later.
What is contact solutioning?
To form a new conception of something, and to replace the contents of a computer with factory settings.
What is reimagine and reimage?
In an effort to optimize the final product, this hit TV series replaced three castaways, before the group set sail on a three hour tour.
What is Gilligan's Island?
A building or other structure that can be climbed. Also, something that can be increased, expanded, or upgraded.
What is scalable?
A point we’ve never known or experienced, and Cyndi Lauper's first number 1 hit in the U.S.
What is Unprecedented Time(s) after Time?
The act of failing to solve a problem.
What is nonsolutioning?
One is fundamentally changing the direction of an organization to meet the needs of a market. The other is the act of spinning on one foot, typically with the raised foot touching the knee of the supporting leg.
What is pivot and pirouette?
After being court-martialed for a crime they didn't commit, this crew escaped from prison and found a "new normal" as soldiers of fortune.
Who are the A-Team?
It's how often a regularly scheduled thing happens. It's also an increasingly popular name meaning "rhythm."
What is Cadence?
This country song, originally recorded by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, before being taken to Number 1 by Rascal Flatts, and this term for a strategic plan that defines a goal or desired outcome and the major steps or milestones needed to reach it.
Priests are known for this, the act of giving a formal release from guilt, obligation, or punishment.
What is absolutioning?
The first is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. The second is the act of bringing together smaller components into a single system that functions as one.
What are integrity and integration?
This title character and 10 of his colleagues utilized multiple design strategies en route to robbing three famous casinos in a 2001 remake of a 1960 Rat Pack film.
Who is Danny Ocean?
This is the set of values x for which a real-valued function f(x) is equal to a given constant OR the act of getting to a state of mutual understanding about a process or approach.
What is level-set?
This 1980’s boxing movie theme song, and this group that Jane Goodall, Liam Hunt and Kate Herron, among others, have suggested should be referred to as a “chimpanzee team” instead, because of the intense cooperation that occurs in chimpanzee social groups.
What is Eye of the Tiger Team?
Couples who find themselves spending more time together than they bargained for during this pandemic might consider this act, which is often cheaper than divorcing.
What is dissolutioning?
One is a four-letter acronym stressing a constant state of uncertainty. The other is a species in the Star Trek universe that includes Spock.
What are VUCA and Vulcan?