The notion of “holding people accountable” has long been amusing and confounding to me. How can anyone “hold” anyone else accountable? Our accountabilities accrue to us naturally—some merely as [...]
The notion of collaborative and partnership-oriented work models in organizations is not new. But, in some organizations and slices of industries, collaboration has become the dominant model—and [...]
I’ve been working with collaborative practices on teams for a number of years now as well as teaching Collaboration for Cross-Functional Teams in local universities and have seen and heard a [...]
One of the most common complaints about collaboration is that “it takes too long.” Frankly that is because we are so bad at it, and the basic skills are not part of the standard repertoire in [...]