We all know that we can achieve more in a good team than we can alone. But in many teams, that idea is misappropriated to mean that teams should necessarily move more quickly than individuals can. The problem with this purely quantitative approach is that it misses the great potential of collaboration: innovation. MORE >>

Remember when collaborating was fun? If you want staff to collaborate productively with one another, your suppliers, peers or customers, the simplest way is to make it fun. What makes collaboration fun? Collaboration is fun because we do it with others. Personalities can make or break the collaborative effort. MORE >>

Managers of remote teams have plenty to worry about. On top of the deadlines, interpersonal conflicts and competing priorities that face all team leaders, managers of dispersed teams need to concern themselves with keeping everyone connected and collaborating despite physical distance. Image courtesy Flickr user fbobolas. MORE >>

In an article published late last year , collaboration champion Brian Solis commented, “we’re blinded by the [social] networks and our need to listen, respond, and update. In reality, that description extends beyond social media to any form of online collaboration, including team members collaborating on work projects. MORE >>

Transparency is something we want from our collaborators, know has value, but often lag about providing ourselves. Don’t you generally like to know what’s going on in your work collaborations? They plan to involve the worker team… once they (in the role of the management team) have planned what work needs to be done. MORE >>