The Heart of Collaboration
There is a lot of energy expended bringing people together to find solutions to complex problems, but getting diverse stakeholders in the…
Your Lonely Plant Guide to Collaboration
There we were, three young backpackers fresh off the train in Florence, Italy, with an intention to stay for a bit and see all this…
Beware the Dark Side
In his recent blog post John wrote about a decision tree developed by Adam Kahane to help with that perennial question – “when should I…
Three ways to take your contractual partnership from good to great
A client in the water infrastructure business recently approached me to talk about how the team can learn to work together with their…
The Joy of Silos
A quick search on the Net for ‘organisational silos’ generates an endless list of headlines such as: Breaking down silos for customer…
The terrifying journey to co-design
When I was in high school I remember travelling to a school sports carnival in the city, an hour away to the north. The sports teacher…
There is co-design, and then there is co-design...
Co-design is a word on many lips these days, but there is co-design, and then there is co-design! People often use co-design to mean a…
Listening and the Politics of Humiliation
Why do you listen to people? When I ask this question of clients and others I tend to get answers focussed on the content: "listening lets…
How to move from open warfare to solution-finding
Getting agreement among people who have diverse and strongly-held opinions is challenging, there is no doubt. But sometimes we make it more…
One thing the populist response to COVID tells us about collaboration
The global COVID pandemic, as tragic and difficult as it is, offers many insights into how people and nations respond to wicked problems.…