The Cost of Doing Things For Your Collaborators
If collaboration is about doing things with others, and command and control is doing things to others, what would you call doing things for…
Got solution-itis? You may need to visit the dilemma doctor
In my travels I see a number of common ailments including: Duck flu - recognisable by the persistent need to 'get our ducks in a row…
What can El Capitan Teach Us About Managing Complexity?
In June 2017, climber Alex Honnold became the first person to climb Yosemite’s El Capitan without ropes. If that feat alone isn’t…
The Secret to Doing Strategy Collaboratively
Many clients come to me saying “we want to create this strategy and we want to do it collaboratively so that everyone owns the actions and…
The ABC of Complexity
As I write, the head of Australia’s public broadcaster, the ABC, has just announced a very significant restructure of the…
Collaborating upside down
If you wore glasses that made everything look upside down, how would you cope? This question is at the core of a famous set of experiments…