October 3, 2024
You mean collaboration doesn’t mean lots more work?!
We think collaboration means lots of work, lots of talk, lots of meetings, lots of time and not all of it useful. But that's not inevitable.
August 13, 2019
Key Questions for Collaborators
If we hear lots of content, stop!.... and reflect on process instead. Only in this way will our collaboration thrive…
August 7, 2019
Curiosity creates better questions
When we ask questions within an important conversation, it’s essential that we are really curious to find out what…
July 11, 2019
Are you planning to act or acting to learn?
Rather than plan in order to act, Bob found more success when he began to act in order to learn....
June 25, 2019
The four traps on the path to a digital water future
These experiences have highlighted some important, and surprising, risks to successful transformation. They are the…
June 20, 2019
The Heat(er) is on!
While on my 2nd schnapps, I had a fuzzy realisation about what that might mean- that it is crucial when facing a…
May 22, 2019
Strategy shining new light on collaboration
"At least one use for the strategic plan", and she went on to wonder why the only people who seemed to look at it were…
February 18, 2019
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…
February 11, 2019
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.
January 25, 2019
Manual focus on collaborative capability
How your brain can be "rewired" by changing a long established practice- relevant in collaboration as much as…
June 19, 2018
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.




