While so much attention given to developing the business, technology, and leadership skills needed to succeed as a social entrepreneur, team building is less often touched upon. The irony is that it’s the quality of the relationships with the people we work with that...
“Go slow to move fast.” Depending on your perspective this saying could mean a variety of things, such as: rushing can result in missed opportunities and mistakes, our productivity and efficiency increase as our skills develop, or resistance is less likely to be...
Like other transformational moments in my life, it was a confluence of events that drove my attention to a repetitive theme: How do we “sell” others on the idea of collaboration? Depending on your situation this could involve persuading a busy executive (perhaps your...
Sometimes the trickiest part of collaboration is knowing where to begin. For those of us who are doers, it’s the substance of the collaboration and defining what we want to achieve together that comes first. Collaborators who are relational begin by assembling a core...
