The Hard Truth at the Heart of Collaboration
If I continue to show myself as an expert who must behave ‘expertly’ to meet expectations, I hide who I really am. I’m…
Bankers and the Path of Vulnerability
The story of Ken Henry and the Commission is a story about vulnerability and our powerful desire to minimise it.
Manual focus on collaborative capability
How your brain can be "rewired" by changing a long established practice- relevant in collaboration as much as…
What Can The Fonze Teach Us About Managing Water?
Water experts are under pressure to be just that – experts - and for most of us that means knowing our work.
3 Waters and a Question of Trust
A high degree of trust will be necessary to allow a frank and honest discussion on what may be the appropriate…
A Crazy Question for Water Managers
“I have always said that managing water is about managing people and managing relationships”.
What IS a collaborative mindset?
I’ve just read a couple of articles posted to LinkedIn today that, in different ways, are practical demonstrations of a…
Letting go of the need to know: an important water wise principle
Collaborative water planning requires us to not know, because it is only from a position of not knowing can we…
The Project Manager Trap Part 2
The difference between a traditional project management approach and the collaborative mindset is significant. As we…