Stephen shares an experience at a firm he founded regarding the importance of face-to-face meetings: “At Hartwell Pacific, the global metal recycling company I founded in 1993 and exited in 2008, I was operating factories in six different cities in four countries, so developing an effective global management […]
Collaboration is not a paneaca, a silver bullet to all good things. There is a time and place for collaborating – for working with others, for gathering and exploring ideas, for joint work, for seeking common ground – but there is equally a time for a leader to […]
Cisco released Cisco Jabber, offering a plethora of communication tools: “Cisco Jabber, a unified communications application that brings together presence, instant messaging (IM), voice and video, voice messaging, desktop sharing and conferencing into a single consistent experience across PCs, Macs, tablets and smart phones. Jabber provides a simple […]
MIT’s Technology Review publication kicked off its new topic for the month: Collaboration Tools. The series is set up with this paragraph: “Powerful software and widespread Internet connectivity are making it easier than ever for people to work together no matter where they happen to be. Throughout March […]
Writing for CMSWire, Jed asked what does enterprise collaboration mean to you? “Collaboration is generally defined as “working together towards a common goal”. The definition, plus our own common sense, dictates that this requires 2 or more people, so we seem to be talking about what might be […]
There’s a lot going on around the world – and being highly connected means we have the potential to know a lot more than we would if we were less connected. The Darwin Awareness Engine is a new way of discovering things that should / could interest us: […]
Phil writing for Skype Journal accuses Cisco of being misleading and incompetent when it come to collaboration: “Collaboration starts in shared intent. Collaboration is behavior, interpersonal and social. Collaboration shows up in our metawork (work about work). Collaboration is working together to define and pursue a common cause. […]
I have been reading through a copy of Nancy Settle-Murphy’s 77 Tips for Planning and Leading Exceptional Virtual Meetings PDF this afternoon. It’s has 77 tips (not surprisingly) in a 20-page PDF, all focused on how to make virtual meetings work well – or exceptionally well. “Whether you’re […]
This is the third post in a series about defining collaboration. Post 1 looked at the three P’s of collaboration (potential, process, and practice), and Post 2 at four types of work. This post looks at what makes collaboration difficult in organizations. In order for people – whether […]
I’ve said that collaboration is about “people working with other people towards a common outcome.” While people work together all the time, not all work is “collaboration” per se. Think about it this way. There are three factors to consider when looking at work: 1. The definition of […]
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