The right effort at the right level Let’s look at 4 ways of working with others. Your understanding of what happens at each level can help you become a more valuable contributor to any project. From there you can build a checklist for any collaborative effort you engage in. 1. Networking When you exchange contact information with someone and express interest in an idea at an informal meeting, you are kicking off a…
Collaboration and what we can learn from slime mould
Guest blogger Max Hardy looks at what slime mould teaches us about collaboration: that our identity is not lost when collaborating and that collaboration helps solve complex problems. A big thanks to Max for sharing his thoughts here. I’ve been reading a terrific book titled Collaborative Leadership: Building relationships, handling conflict and sharing control by David Archer and Alex Cameron. Drawing on the…
With support, collaboration promotes insight and innovation
Insight is a new way of seeing a problem, a new awareness or understanding. It becomes possible when a problem is first recognized, then addressed and considered in different ways. Insight can lead to discovery and innovation and that is usually a good thing. Writing teams are made up of people from various parts of an organization who…