Book Highlights From The Collaboration Imperative

Here are some of my favorite takeaways from the book, The CollaborationImperative, by Ron Ricci and Carl Wiese:

Across every organization lies hidden treasure just waiting to be discovered. It’s not hiding in a budget spreadsheet of a warehouse full of inventory. It lies within your people—their ideas, their experiences, their focus, their energy. The more you empower them to share their knowledge and skills, the more successful your organization will be. From ideas come innovation and new forms of productivity.

Transparent decision making requires that all stakeholders know the answers to these three questions:

Who is making the decision?

Who is accountable for the outcomes of the decision?

What are the consequences—positive or negative—of that accountability?

The conceptual thinker brings ideas to the table and the analytical thinker brings details that ground those ideas in reality.

“If you are not genuinely pained by the risk involved in your strategic choices, it’s not much of a strategy,” – Reid Hastings.

Trust anchors every successful collaborative team. And it becomes even more crucial as technology-enabled virtual teams form, disband and re-form to keep up with the pace of business.