What should you do to ensure success?

Three different teams of approximately 3 to 5 persons each have been brought together to work on a project. In the past, the teams competed with each other, and several of the team members personally dislike members of the other teams. All team members have personal traits that could irritate the other team members, especially when they are stressed. Each team considers themselves intellectually superior, knowledgeable, more powerful, and more important than the other teams. One of the team members has a close association with the primary stakeholder.

You are the new project manager. You are preparing for the Kickoff Meeting for a very challenging short term, schedule challenged, highly visible project.