Mastering Collaboration: Make Working Together Less Painful and More Productive
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Mastering Collaboration: Make Working Together Less Painful and More Productive
When problems have many intertwined causes, or solutions require novel skills and materials, it’s critical to be able to bring a diverse group of people together to be productive.
In these situations, collaborations, given the right space, can help a small group of trusted colleagues feel out the unknowns from different angles.
Analysis showed that the cultural norm of giving in to superiors rather than challenging them meant that junior pilots who spotted problems failed to raise them.
It’s important to model, and hold each other accountable for, respecting these team norms.
Erin Meyer is an author and researcher who’s done a lot to map out the ways in which cultures differ,
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Open office plans, originally designed to promote collaboration, turn out to have the opposite effect
Try designing an office space that has pods of individuals but then each is surrounding a center space where people talk loudly not bother others but they can easily get too quickly to have a jam session
Getting buy-in from large groups of stakeholders can also be improved by collaboration.