Comments for Collaborative By Design http://www.collaborative-by-design.com Increasing collaborative capacity in communities and organizations through intentionally designed workplace environments, multi-stakeholder conversations, organizational systems and individual and team training. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:19:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Comment on Inquiry-Based Schools and Colleges by S http://www.collaborative-by-design.com/inquiry-based-schools-and-colleges/comment-page-1/#comment-181 S Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:19:24 +0000 http://www.collaborative-by-design.com/?page_id=306#comment-181 [...] Inquiry-Based Schools and Colleges [...] [...] Inquiry-Based Schools and Colleges [...]

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]]> Comment on What are Your Experiences of Moving From Teamwork to Collaboration? by cheri http://www.collaborative-by-design.com/2009/07/what-are-your-experiences-of-moving-from-teamwork-to-collaboration/comment-page-1/#comment-21 cheri Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:20:30 +0000 http://www.collaborative-by-design.com/?p=6#comment-21 I just read that according to Buddhist tradition, the glue is compassion. What would it mean for individuals in an organization to have compassion? I just read that according to Buddhist tradition, the glue is compassion. What would it mean for individuals in an organization to have compassion?

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]]> Comment on Internet Structures for Collaborative Learning by Eduardo Afonso http://www.collaborative-by-design.com/2009/09/internet-structures-for-collaborative-learning/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Eduardo Afonso Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:34:57 +0000 http://www.collaborative-by-design.com/?p=93#comment-18 Cheri It is a very intriguing perspective! Yet millennial generation has this openness from birth they still facing the hard work of being together two different approaches (X and baby boomers) in a world so called "Organizational Paradox". I do believe that collaboration is the new pathway and words like Love, Wisdom and Gratitude will be more and more natural for us as consultants and XXI century's workers. How better transform the tons of information that the youth reach everyday in knowledge and from that point transform knowledge in wisdom? That's my provocative proposition to our friends and readers. Eduardo Cheri

It is a very intriguing perspective!
Yet millennial generation has this openness from birth they still facing the hard work of being together two different approaches (X and baby boomers) in a world so called “Organizational Paradox”.
I do believe that collaboration is the new pathway and words like Love, Wisdom and Gratitude will be more and more natural for us as consultants and XXI century’s workers.
How better transform the tons of information that the youth reach everyday in knowledge and from that point transform knowledge in wisdom? That’s my provocative proposition to our friends and readers.

Eduardo

]]> Comment on It’s Kind of Like Jazz Improv . . . by cheri http://www.collaborative-by-design.com/2009/09/its-kind-of-like-jazz-improv/comment-page-1/#comment-13 cheri Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:18:59 +0000 http://www.collaborative-by-design.com/?p=116#comment-13 Brian, I totally agree that it's all in the conversation--verbal and non-verbal! You've quoted pianist Monty Alexander on your website: Jazz, at its best, is a situation in which participants willingly support each other, working together as one, each player bringing virtuosity, optimism, mutual respect, good will, and the desire to make it feel good. What a great quote, which totally captures what intentional collaboration is all about. In your work, what kinds of structures have you seen implemented in organizations or conversations that actually support this? What are leaders that you work with discovering? Brian, I totally agree that it’s all in the conversation–verbal and non-verbal! You’ve quoted pianist Monty Alexander on your website:

Jazz, at its best, is a situation in which participants willingly support each other, working together as one, each player bringing virtuosity, optimism, mutual respect, good will, and the desire to make it feel good.

What a great quote, which totally captures what intentional collaboration is all about. In your work, what kinds of structures have you seen implemented in organizations or conversations that actually support this? What are leaders that you work with discovering?

]]> Comment on It’s Kind of Like Jazz Improv . . . by Brian Fraser http://www.collaborative-by-design.com/2009/09/its-kind-of-like-jazz-improv/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Brian Fraser Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:52:36 +0000 http://www.collaborative-by-design.com/?p=116#comment-12 Delighted to see others exploring the metaphor of jazz for organizational and leadership development. And your focus on structure is crucial. For me, it's finding the creative tension between structures that enable collaboration and freedom that invites individual creativity. Finding that 'groove' in any given situation is the key. In our Jazzthink keynotes and workshops, the connection with everyday work life we draw is that the most common form of jazz or improvisation is ordinary conversation. If you build your teams and exercise your leadership through conversations (and we all do), then you are a jazz musician and can learn a lot from the masters of the art. In the end, I think that managers and leaders need to create structures that stimulate and sustain conversations among the right people about the right ideas that result in people doing the right things, improvising on the core charts of great organizational performance discovered by Jim Collins. Delighted to see others exploring the metaphor of jazz for organizational and leadership development. And your focus on structure is crucial. For me, it’s finding the creative tension between structures that enable collaboration and freedom that invites individual creativity. Finding that ‘groove’ in any given situation is the key. In our Jazzthink keynotes and workshops, the connection with everyday work life we draw is that the most common form of jazz or improvisation is ordinary conversation. If you build your teams and exercise your leadership through conversations (and we all do), then you are a jazz musician and can learn a lot from the masters of the art. In the end, I think that managers and leaders need to create structures that stimulate and sustain conversations among the right people about the right ideas that result in people doing the right things, improvising on the core charts of great organizational performance discovered by Jim Collins.

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