It's all about the conversations

Collaborations are conversations that matter and make a difference. Like communities, collaborations move in the direction of their conversations at the speed of trust.

Collaborations work because their conversations work. They work because they operate from a handful of core principles:

  • Our greatest asset in an unpredictable world is our questions

  • Trust is the dog that wags the tail of creativity

  • People support what they help create

  • When it comes to ideas and questions, more leads to better

  • The smartest person in the room is the group

Adaptive challenges

Strategic Doing guru, Ed Morrison, talks about adaptive challenges that have no pre-set approaches or solutions.

Adaptive challenges defy the type of root cause analysis that works on technical problems. Collective intuition, continuous experimentation, and learning by doing provide the only promising pathway to successful adaptation.

They are calls for cognitively diverse collaborations, the intersections of people who tend to be creative, critical, and curious thinkers.

They are calls for cognitively diverse collaborations, the intersections of people who tend to be creative, critical, and curious thinkers.