Collaboration

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Jorge Silva on horizontal structures and participatory culture at 10Pines

...don't have to win against each other, they just have to make as many points as they can. So then people start to understand the game. And they start collaborating with each other, and they let the other one win - they win one time, and then they go back. And then with that, the points start to raise like 20 poi...more
...t to raise like 20 points or 30 points, each one. So the idea here is that this has like two main insights or learning points. The first one is that collaboration is better than competition, and this is far away from a romantic view of collaboration. Because empirically, you can see that when you collaborate wi...more
...ke two main insights or learning points. The first one is that collaboration is better than competition, and this is far away from a romantic view of collaboration. Because empirically, you can see that when you collaborate with the other, you have more points. And the other insight that is interesting is what ...more
... collaboration is better than competition, and this is far away from a romantic view of collaboration. Because empirically, you can see that when you collaborate with the other, you have more points. And the other insight that is interesting is what is called a zero-sum game fallacy. The idea of the fallacy i...more
...es of games when you talk about game theory, right. So there are other games that are non-zero-sum games. And in those cases, the best strategy is to collaborate. There is a really popular game called the Prisoner's Dilemma. And in those types of games, you have to collaborate to have a better performance. So...more
...se cases, the best strategy is to collaborate. There is a really popular game called the Prisoner's Dilemma. And in those types of games, you have to collaborate to have a better performance. So the idea, and so the fallacy is, that most of the time - when you don't know this kind of new situation in real lif...more
...ting philosophy in economics, because it is interesting to think about the economy and if it is a zero-sum game or not. And if we have to compete, or collaborate. And if we collaborate, are we going to have a better performance or not? But the idea is to see what happens in a company. If a company is a zero-su...more
...omics, because it is interesting to think about the economy and if it is a zero-sum game or not. And if we have to compete, or collaborate. And if we collaborate, are we going to have a better performance or not? But the idea is to see what happens in a company. If a company is a zero-sum game or not, and...wh...more
...ve a better performance or not? But the idea is to see what happens in a company. If a company is a zero-sum game or not, and...whether to compete or collaborate. So...our premise is that a company is a non-zero-sum game. Collaboration is better for having a better performance in all aspects. So we created th...more
...company. If a company is a zero-sum game or not, and...whether to compete or collaborate. So...our premise is that a company is a non-zero-sum game. Collaboration is better for having a better performance in all aspects. So we created this company with this idea - with the idea of collaboration. Because...we th...more
...n-zero-sum game. Collaboration is better for having a better performance in all aspects. So we created this company with this idea - with the idea of collaboration. Because...we think it's the best way to do things, and it's the proper way to do things. It is a better way of having a better performance in these ...more
... smaller piece of pie, right. So this is like an analogy for these kinds of things. You can compete for happiness - a small slice of pie - or you can collaborate to get a bigger pie and have a smaller amount, but in comparison with the other one it is bigger. So this is what we think in terms of also the prof...more
...el proud of three practices that summarise all the culture and how we see the management of the company. The first one is that we make decisions in a collaborative way. And we use concerns - like in Sociocracy. The idea is that when you propose something, you look for objections, and an objection is someone that...more
...r what people can take with them? Jorge Silva: Yeah, I was thinking about that. Well, one thing is, I think that this kind of crisis is forcing us to collaborate. And I think that this is an interesting idea. Because right now you depend on others, you really depend on others to stay healthy and to stay safe. ...more
...hy and to stay safe. And this is interesting, because you have to trust, you have to trust that others don’t go out and stay at home. And you have to collaborate with others to do your groceries, or you have to share your new discoveries on the vaccine. And I think that this is a really good example of how co...more
...te with others to do your groceries, or you have to share your new discoveries on the vaccine. And I think that this is a really good example of how collaboration works better than competing. Because in order to make the world go back to normality, we need everyone to collaborate. And if we don't go that way, i...more
... a really good example of how collaboration works better than competing. Because in order to make the world go back to normality, we need everyone to collaborate. And if we don't go that way, it is really hard to get rid of this virus. So I think one of the learning points here is that collaboration really is ...more
... everyone to collaborate. And if we don't go that way, it is really hard to get rid of this virus. So I think one of the learning points here is that collaboration really is a game where you perform better. And the other thing is, sometimes when we talk about these kinds of ideas, and these kinds of crazy polic...more

Miki Kashtan on the three shifts needed for self-managing organisations to thrive

... managing organisations and communities. So I'm really excited to share this conversation with you, because it's really altered the way I think about collaborating, and even just about being human and how I communicate with everyone in my life. She has so much experience and dedicated practice so there's so much...more
...about what she believes are the three fundamental shifts that need to happen within us as humans and the systems that we're operating in, in order to collaborate in a self managing way. So it's a really deep conversation about navigating power, about mindset shifts, new levels of dialogue and self awareness. I...more
...way or when it is declared necessary, in many more cases, then, I think, are necessary. Because people declare it necessary on the basis of fear that collaboration is just not workable, rather than on the basis of specific circumstances and criteria. And power with is essentially about honouring the autonomy and...more
...ansform their habits in order to exercise power with, because otherwise, you will be caught in this very odd, painful contradiction of where you want collaboration, and you want things to go your way, both at the same time, which is not possible. So the main change internally is to be open to hearing different n...more
...you know is true does carry risks. So ultimately, on an individual basis, changing it from below is the highest skill level necessary – to be able to collaborate with someone who isn't in a collaborative mindset, and also has power in relation to you. That is the biggest deal, that is where nonviolence really ...more
...timately, on an individual basis, changing it from below is the highest skill level necessary – to be able to collaborate with someone who isn't in a collaborative mindset, and also has power in relation to you. That is the biggest deal, that is where nonviolence really gets tested. So they're internal changes. ...more
... process is such a wonderful tool, because it moves you in the direction, regardless of which side you started from. It moves you in the direction of collaboration of openness to multiplicity of perspectives, before anything becomes a decision....more
... choices that you make. We learn through knowing what impact we have on others. So those are the five systems. And those systems can be set up, to be collaborative, to be supportive of 'power with', to be supportive of collaborative decision making, to be supportive of empowerment, to be supportive of support fo...more
...on others. So those are the five systems. And those systems can be set up, to be collaborative, to be supportive of 'power with', to be supportive of collaborative decision making, to be supportive of empowerment, to be supportive of support for everyone, to be supportive of attending to issues of power and priv...more
...ms, what are the sort of human shifts that need to happen? What can I do as a human being to develop the mindset, the skills, the abilities needed to collaborate in in a more self managing way? Miki Kashtan: I'll start with telling you a story. And through that story, I will pull out a very core principle. I w...more
...It's built into our evolutionary design. Because we evolved, as far as I understand the literature, we evolved to live in small groups of people that collaborate, to share resources for the wellbeing of all, that's what we evolved for. That's not how we live now. But that capacity is still within us. It's just...more
...just rather not do self management". So I want to say, it may be daunting. And in my experience, every step of the way, yields more freedom, and more collaboration, both. So you take baby steps, and you do only what is within your capacity. Don't change everything at once in one day, just take one piece at a tim...more

Alanna Irving on leadership, decisions and money in bossless organisations

...ource software projects. But it's evolved quite far beyond that now. Because it started with open source software projects it's built for distributed collaboration, which often doesn't naturally want to or can't take the shape of, for example, a legal entity that one person owns. It's actually something which is...more
...re interested in - and I think is sometimes a bit of a taboo topic in terms of distributed and decentralized organisations, which is money and how we collaborate with money. What has been your journey with that and what have you learned? What are some insights that you could share with listeners about collabor...more
...laborate with money. What has been your journey with that and what have you learned? What are some insights that you could share with listeners about collaborating with money in a non hierarchical way? Alanna Irving: Collaborating with money has become a really big theme in my work over the last few years. And t...more
...have you learned? What are some insights that you could share with listeners about collaborating with money in a non hierarchical way? Alanna Irving: Collaborating with money has become a really big theme in my work over the last few years. And that was not exactly intentional. It's something that really emerged...more
...her out. Money is a natural way to do that. So we started doing a lot of interesting experiments with money and Enspiral. What emerged was the whole collaborative funding Cobudget thing. Cobudget is a tool for making a budget together. Essentially, you put up projects and people can control different amounts of...more
...d a lot of the legal entity company structure work behind that. A I wondered how you hack things that are made for one way of looking at business and collaboration for a completely different sort of paradigm. The status quo is just really time consuming, expensive and requires talking to lawyers and asking accou...more
...it get to a point where the things that weren't working were right in my face before I actually let myself consider that that was going on. For every collaborative group who is doing highly experimental, brave stuff - it's dangerous and risky. I was just feeling like I had taken some risks, as a leader in that s...more
...s thing up and export it?' And can we copy and paste this into other cities? And what I've come to realize is I don't think you can. A truly vibrant, collaborative community is not built, it's grown. And each one grows differently, and has to be given that space - because what we're doing here is about emergence...more
... common story, or that could help us step back and look at what this thing is that we're actually in. I guess that's the project that I want to be in collaboration with all of you out there. I think that we need to be in this together to figure that out....more

Ruth, Taryn and Philippa from Mayden, a health tech company that’s Made Without Managers

...Durden and Rob Cullingford had run some workshops for the organisation, and the four values that we as an organisation are built on. So transparency, collaboration, contribution and forward-thinking. They'd really emerged from talking to the staff at the time, to employees at the time, and Rob and Ali had run so...more
... the place. And like Taryn said, we use them to diagnose when things aren't feeling right, or as guiding principles when we're figuring stuff out. Is collaboration in there? What about transparency? How are we enabling contribution? And they came out of a place of, well, what kind of culture do we want? How do w...more
...rectors. And so they are there within a purpose and have value there, just in the governance side of things. But also, a lot of what we do is through collaboration and around discussing with staff and working groups that get together around a subject and a topic. So early on, and around the time that the exec te...more
... think an area we're really homing in on at the moment is - and I'll come back to the decision making piece of work - is to this point, we are a very collaborative organisation. We really hold that value very dear. And consulting and involving people in decision making has always been a very important part of wh...more
...e bigger we are in terms of number of employees, the harder we are finding it to balance that efficient, effective decision making with involving and collaborating. So I think for me, one of the things that we're really homing in on is the impact of scaling for collaborative decision making, and how do we strike...more
...ve decision making with involving and collaborating. So I think for me, one of the things that we're really homing in on is the impact of scaling for collaborative decision making, and how do we strike that balance as an organisation. Because we really want to get it right, we really want to still hold true to t...more
...ing, and how do we strike that balance as an organisation. Because we really want to get it right, we really want to still hold true to that value of collaboration, but also be fleet of foot. We're exploring new markets, new opportunities for us, and we need to know that we can also make decisions quickly. So ye...more

Peter Koenig on source, money and consciousness

...working together on this thing, which is a total paradigm shift in my opinion. Peter Koenig: Yes. I totally agree. Totally agree because this kind of collaboration, once again, one we haven't learned, we haven't been educated in, in, let's say, the conventional paradigm of our education. What we've learnt in ter...more
... again, one we haven't learned, we haven't been educated in, in, let's say, the conventional paradigm of our education. What we've learnt in terms of collaboration is like on a production line. You get a half-produced product, or a quarter-produced product from your left and you're in a linear process and you're...more
...r left and you're in a linear process and you're supposed to do something with it, and pass it to your right. And that linear process is what we call collaboration, normally, but of course, it's totally inadequate for what's required now, which is collaboration between creative people who are left to their own s...more
...your right. And that linear process is what we call collaboration, normally, but of course, it's totally inadequate for what's required now, which is collaboration between creative people who are left to their own sources because we want to have innovative sources within our field who are creative, who don't nee...more
...nnovative sources within our field who are creative, who don't need to be told precisely what to do. And that requires a completely different kind of collaboration, than people on a linear production line with job descriptions, who actually do need to be told precisely what to do it and when to do it, and so for...more
...is a paradigm shift and it needs to be, in a sense, this is what we're doing with the source work, we're in training, that we're helping this form of collaboration to emerge. And, as you say, it's a paradox because in a sense we are still enabling what one might call a hierarchy, but it's a different kind of hie...more
...een blind spots), come across a lot of people who are wanting to be a self-managing organisation, they (are) wanting to be more conscious in how they collaborate together, and I'm seeing them really suffer in things like, as Tom describes it, as 'creative entropy' - really well-intentioned people coming togeth...more

Margaret Heffernan on how to act our way out of the status quo trap

...it is very frustrating. But on the other hand, I was thinking just the other day that I published my book - A Bigger Prize - in 2015, which was about collaboration, and why it was so important, and how to do it well. And I remember I was going around talking to lots of different kinds of organisations about it. ...more
...d in one workshop a very senior executive stood up and asked me if was I a communist. He was so totally baffled by this idea. Like, why do we have to collaborate? I just tell people what to do, and that works fine for me. Anyway, I was in a conference in Italy this weekend, and there was a report on the curre...more
... which the G7 is thinking about how they are going to work together to address challenges like the climate crisis? Well, it turns out, it's all about collaboration. It's about collaboration. It's about consensus. It's about cooperation. It's about all the things I was writing about in 2015 - when people wondered...more
...about how they are going to work together to address challenges like the climate crisis? Well, it turns out, it's all about collaboration. It's about collaboration. It's about consensus. It's about cooperation. It's about all the things I was writing about in 2015 - when people wondered why I was writing about i...more
...about it. I have a history here. I was writing about Willful Blindness when everybody thought they were on top of the world. And I was writing about collaboration when everybody thought, no - individual competitiveness is what makes companies and countries thrive. And my most recent book, which is about the unp...more

Michael Y. Lee on lessons from researching self-managing organisations

...en I think at a collective level, you need structures and processes and practices at a collective level to both facilitate, I think, coordination and collaboration, which is a bigger issue for self-managing organisations, because self-managing organisations fundamentally trade off some level of control at a coll...more
...to holacracy in a moment, because I wanted to talk about leadership as well, because I saw that you have been leading a two day program at Harvard on collaborative leadership and building organisations for the future. So what are your thoughts on leadership in self-managing organisations when there are no bosses...more
...rose between individual versus team effort, so that people felt like there was less of an emphasis or an attention paid to the team as a whole and to collaboration, and that's because these individual roles became so much more salient because they were defined, they were made explicit, they were published on thi...more
...stuff. So in some ways, we're helping cheat the brain out of those things until it becomes a new habit because we know that these things are good for collaboration, and that we haven't really learned how to do that with each other in an effective way at scale, I think. Michael Y. Lee: Yeah I totally agree and th...more

Bill Fischer and Simone Cicero on Haier and the entrepreneurial organisation

...nd make you uncomfortable and get you to do something radical, and then you’d get a different kind of director that would be much more supportive and collaborative and asking you think, asking you to try something else and giving you feedback and so on — so I’m thinking about, and maybe it’s because I’m not the ...more
...ric effort into putting all of yourself into making something happen. And I know that for those that are, for example, into collective management and collaborative decision-making, all the stories they have been telling us for decades, and some of them are true for sure, but some of them can be designed, for exa...more

Bernadette Wesley on bridging inner and outer transformation

...ives. The third area is relating how we 'care' for others and for the world - connection, empathy, compassion, those kinds of things. The fourth is 'collaborating' - our social skills. So you could say some of the emotional intelligence movement falls in there. But it's also about mobilising something together....more

Anna Elgh on self-managing teams and shifting conflicts at Svenska Retursystem

...Lisa Gill: Yeah, human beings are messy creatures aren't they? So it's now year three, I think, of this collaboration with Tuff, and I'm curious to know what were some of the starting points and what have been some of the milestones along the way in this shift? Anna ...more

Amy Edmondson on psychological safety and the future of work

...rk. There’s some work, of course, that’s still done very much by individuals working alone, but an awful lot of it is done by people coordinating and collaborating and communicating with each other in very important, rich ways. So, I thought: “OK I’ll study how teams learn from mistakes” and what happened was I ...more

Beetroot’s founders on purpose, self-management, and shocking people with trust

...onnection to? So we have taken that role, you could say, where we try to spread this way of doing things further, which also includes like being very collaborative with other organisations - we don't really look at competitors as competitors in the traditional sense - more of a chance to change various things an...more

Buurtzorg and the power of self-managed teams of nurses

...Lisa Gill: So say some more about that because I've heard a lot about how Buurtzorg evolves in a very collaborative way. It's not like Jos has a grand idea and then everything follows. It's very transparent and sharing ideas... Chila: Anyone with a good idea can po...more

Gary Hamel on busting bureaucracy for good

...rt of that canvas that just looks like it was random. Isn't that amazing? In a very short period of time, with very simple controls, human beings can collaborate in ways that produce meaningful images and structures. So why do we need a hierarchy again? So I guess it's almost a truism that you can't change som...more