The Concept of Leadership in Three Conversations
In three podcast conversations over the last month I’ve had the opportunity to explore aspects of leadership inside the realm of collaboration and community change. Kerry Graham, Max Hardy, Anthony Boxshall, and Liz Weaver have all touched on related and interconnected thinking around the leadership it takes to create and maintain a collaboration. But the conversation brings me to think about the nature of leadership and whether there is actually a ‘leader’ in a collaboration.
5 Reasons Collaboration fails (and how to avoid them) - repost
A repost of an article penned by Annemarie Marshall that outlines 5 ways collaboration can fail and importantly how to avoid these traps in the first place.
Collaboration empowers people.
Collaboration is a force to empower people, whether its to participate, be creative, apply critical thinking, or be a leader.
Explaining Collaboration - repost
Collaboration can take you or your organization to another level of impact. You get there by creating a clear purpose, connecting people through culture, values and empathy, and connecting ideas from different perspectives.
What makes something systemic?
We all understand systemic to mean widespread. Maybe, in the context of discrimination based on race, religion, sexuality, gender, age, ability or anything else, we should redefine the term.
George Floyd
Like many, I struggle to see the path forward within a system where intolerance so often prevails. But the path forward comes when we speak up, insist we are heard, persevere, and remember those that fell during the struggle.
Is Collaboration Just a Buzzword?
Collaboration is so much more than an expression to say "I fit in!". Collaboration is really a creative process so that people can explore and develop new innovative ideas to achieve a common purpose.
