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Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Collaboration: Overrated?
The Monster Blog: Collaboration: Overrated?: As I’ve mentioned before on these pages, in addition to working here at Monster, I’m in an evening MBA program at a local college. One of the small intellectual satisfactions of working and going to school simultaneously is to see the interconnection between the two -- the similarities and differences, the overlap and the disconnect.
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A useful hybrid of traditional hierarchy, collaboration, and autonomy should be the aim. The traditional hierarchical model has been so knee-jerk default for many decades that something about the recognition of collaboration is a just and needed counterbalancing value. Doubtless, the tack of just doing more things collaboratively may not always be the best one.
If, however, supporting a fuller sense of collaborative participation is on some level an important redressing of deep-groove norms of Western culture, exploring developing that capacity outside of the work environment proper helps increase this needed capacity by not just plopping it in a setting where the basic tenets and frameworks of productivity, "success," efficiency, and so on are the values that guide the system and must be honored.
My Chormmunity work invites co-creation in a context outside (sometimes alongside) an actual work project. With tenets and frameworks not requiring the same kind of "successful" efficiency and utilitarian "accomplishment," the still-needed increase in collaborative capacity is actually given a freer hand.
From there, the ideal of having more matched faculties for hierarchy, collaboration, and autonomy can support wiser and more appropriate changing use, varying employment of these three manners of exercising power, depending on the scale, goal, stakeholders, and other contextual factors of the particular situation.
The next Chormmunity workshop is on March 1st, 2008, in Petaluma, California: http://imaginal.edu/03-01-08_creative_collaboration_web.html
Posted by: Paul | Jan 29, 2008 9:05:11 PM
