When you as the manager treat your peers, other managers in the organizations as your first team, it changes your stance. It changes the way you work. It creates intentionally a set of allies you can problem-solve, people problem-solve with, people you can collaborate with. This is a little bit different idea than my first team of the people that work for me. Instead, your first team becomes those other engineering managers, directors, VPs, whatever it is, those peers, those all-important peer relationships that are so, so vital to cross-team, cross-silo and cross-departmental work. Show Notes What is a “first team”? I got trained in a cohort of people that went through together, and that became my first team Creating a unified management team There was also really something special about the way my boss created and improved the relationships with the people that he led through the program. if we go back to the past and we see where companies put people through their own leadership development programs Links: https://www.attack-gecko.net/2018/06/25/building-a-first-team-mindset/ O’Reilly Velocity Conference - Berlin, Germany.  September 4-7, 2019. Use discount code MB20 to save 20% on Bronze, Silver, and Gold packages.