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Teaming
According to Harvard professor Amy Edmonson, dynamic work environments and large-scale challenges require “teaming”: the flexibility to collaborate in the moment with an ever-changing roster of professionals. > “Teaming” is collaborating “on the fly” across disciplines and distance and with an ever-changing roster of experts. > By contrast, teamwork involves practice and planning amid a relatively small, fixed group of people. > Teamwork outperforms teaming but isn’t always an option. Many projects are fast-paced, unpredictable and complex – like the 2010 rescue of 33 trapped Chilean miners. >>> Successful teaming builds on three qualities: humble leadership, intellectual curiosity and comfort in risk taking <<
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Kind of people
“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people; those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.” ― Indira Gandhi
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Collaboration
Collaboration expert Gretchen Anderson explains in practical terms how collaboration works, what it can accomplish, how to organize collaborative teams and which common collaboration pitfalls to avoid. Companies suffer when colleagues can’t get together effectively to develop smart solutions to problems. Collaboration provides an opportunity to work with groups of people with diverse backgrounds and varied points of view! *5 Take-Aways from this book*: 1. Collaborations won’t work without MUTUAL TRUST. 2. Collaborations need defined objectives. 3. When it comes to starting a collaboration, having more people involved is better. Eventually, reduce the number of participants to a core group. 4. Effective collaborations require planning and a well-defined structure. 5. In any collaboration, one person should…
