Shawn commented on Will IT slowly strangle corporate outposts: “You can’t do innovation on a shoestring. For example, 3M, a company known for its innovation, insists that all its chemical engineers send 10% of their time working on their own projects. There are so insistent on this that […]
Writing at Talent Culture, Kirsten suggests that playing devil’s advocate allows the creation of collaboration in the workplace: “The void in communication may be due to a lack of questioning. I’ve come to think that there is a lack of “why” in present day workplace culture. As always, […]
Melba looks at the reasons why intelligent and well-meaning people resist change: “When you view resistance to change in the context of guarding the Performance Engine and apply it to your workplace, your boss’s resistance begins to look different and maybe even solveable. If someone is protecting her […]
About a month ago, Dion wrote a long post looking at where collaboration will thrive when it goes social. He covers a lot of ground, including: – The dominance of social media as a consumer channel for interacting with organizations – Most organizations don’t act and think like […]
The why of collaboration – that grand idea that brings us together in the first place – is all about purpose. Lokesh offers a set of steps for getting your purpose clear: “1. What’s the business problem you are trying to solve? 2. Why do you want to […]
As part of their series on collaboration, Jodi from Technology Review interviewed Irene Greif at IBM about the psychology of collaboration. The focus of the interview was about the non-technology aspects of collaboration, and they discussed: – Too much automation leads to process breakdowns. The system can’t see […]
Gil shares his thoughts on Charlene Li’s book Open Leadership: “The premise: leadership remains a requirement. Open and Social business are not leaderless — quite the contrary, they are lead in a manner that leverages new behaviors. To leverage them, they must adopt and model them too — […]
Lee from Technology Review interviewed Evan Rosen on the culture of collaboration, and how more than technology is needed to make collaboration work. Evan is the author of The Culture of Collaboration. The following comment struck me: “Lee: How [does culture create collaboration]? Evan: Organizational culture stems from […]
Mitch shares a list of 15 quotes on collaboration, including one by Edwin Land: “Politeness is the poison of collaboration.“ My Comments 1. In my post The 3P’s of Collaboration I talked about “practice,” and wrote “In order for people to work with other people, there needs to […]
This is the fifth post in a series about defining collaboration. Previously: – Post 1 looked at the three P’s of collaboration (potential, process, and practice). – Post 2 talked about four types of work. – Post 3 examined the ceiling of opportunity and value. – Post 4 […]
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