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collaborative success is a dance

Embracing success: Six signs that your collaboration will survive … and thrive

When you are collaborating, it’s a lot like dancing. There are steps, actions, paths, communication, coordination, skills, postures and positions, and it all takes time and practice. How do you know if it will work or not? Today, I’d like to offer you six signs to look for. They are inspired by the dancers in Roberto Blizzard‘s video “Dancing…

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Repairing connections in collaboration

When you work with others, you have expectations. Sometimes the connections on the great project tree seem damaged, dried up, brittle and fragmented. The project drags on. You have a deadline. How do you do your job? Questions open the door to deeper collaboration … or not This week, I wrote to a subject matter expert who was assigned as the main information…

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Hire a professional proofreader to ensure your book is the best it can be

If you are not collaborating consciously, you may want to listen to Doreen Pendgracs. She is a professional writer, editor and proofreader. Doreen recommends that you at least hire a professional proofreader to ensure your book is the best it can be. She is the Wizard of Words and author of a most helpful book on the subject of volunteering on…

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How do you know you are writing collaboratively?

If you write in a business context, you are probably writing collaboratively. You might not know it, though. It is important to be sure. It saves a lot of trouble with mistaken assumptions and not being able to deliver. So at what point did you start writing collaboratively? Was it: While you were writing the first draft? After you…

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Collaboration is communicating about your shared goals

Law 8. Collaboration is all about communication and shared goals

We are all familiar with collaboration that fails because of insufficient effort in one direction or another. Here is a a proposal that takes into consideration all the factors at play when a group of people collaborate. The formula I propose shows how to create collaborative success. Yes, there is probably a more complex or correct equation for what it takes to make…

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Writing is always collaborative

Law 5. Agree on practices and tools and track progress

A collaborative writer is someone who works with at least one other person to produce a text and achieve a common purpose. Now, a group of writers can produce a lot of text. To ensure that all those pieces go together well, the team should agree on practices and tools while tracking progress throughout the phases of…

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Law 4. Assess the requirements for the project (even if there’s no time)

You have already established your writing mandate with Law 3. So does the team start scribbling yet? Not quite. There’s an Arabic saying about good, expressive prose: (If it takes) No skill to understand it, (then it takes) mastery to write it.” — cited by Taleb in his book on anti fragility (I’ve added parenthetical notes) In writing,…

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Collaborative writing brings innovation: Declaration of Independence

Collaborative writing in history: The Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence is a great example of collaborative writing. All the elements are there: a writing mandate, plenty of source material, consultation with experts, a tight timeline, committees, key writers of great skill, various drafts, and a three-day meeting, during which the text is edited by many players. The writing team is even told to take…

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