
Tag Archives: collaboration
Apart and Together: Responding to Opportunity in Extreme Times
Increasing Prospects for Collaboration Even before Starting
Strengthening Collaboration through Encouraging Dissent

Crossposted at The Center for Efficient Collaboration.
The first time I heard that groups thrive on dissent, I didn’t like the idea. It came up in conversations with Tom Atlee of the Co-Intelligence Institute, back in the mid-1990s. Tom was clear, based on his experience in activist movements and especially …
Some Things I Am Learning from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Embracing Nonviolence
Leadership, Empowerment, and Interdependence
For some years now, I’ve been learning through ongoing experimentation what collaborative leadership means. It’s not been easy, because our either/or lens on reality renders the space between coercive leadership and no leadership elusive, almost invisible. Which is not to say it’s not there, as so many successful leaders know. …
Power, Collaboration, and Control
Many years ago I was embroiled in a very complex legal battle with a landlord. A big part of the challenge for me was that both the landlord and the partner I was living with at the time had been trained as lawyers, and I was quite alienated from the …