Collaboration is the name of the game

Collaboration is the name of the game. You might have heard me say that before. Lately, I have seen an increase in the announcements of acquisitions that companies make. Apple […]

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Building bridges

Recently I witnessed a situation where two people were trying to work together. Each of them had their own opinion about the situation and they were defending it severely. They […]

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Business is all about collaboration – 4 tips to improve

Business is all about collaboration! Coming from me, this is probably not a very surprising statement. However, some people might feel that business is about results. It might be, but […]

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The 2017 summer reading list

During the summer months, the business slows down a bit for many people and organizations. Therefore, these months could be an excellent time to catch up on other tasks or […]

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Why email is not good for communication

It was in 1987 when I had my first encounter with email. At that time I was working at a small company where one of my tasks was to select […]

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What is the biggest inhibitor to collaboration?

The other day I came across this quote on Twitter: “The biggest threat to innovation is internal politics and an organizational culture, which doesn’t accept failure and/or doesn’t accept ideas […]

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Culture and collaboration

Without a doubt you will recognize the fact that there are cultural differences between Western European countries and countries in Asia or Africa. On such a high level it is […]

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Four elements of a collaborative mindset

Last time I wrote about how collaboration is about you, or better said, how collaboration starts with you. There is a little nuance to that, as collaboration can not happen […]

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Collaboration is all about you!

Collaboration, whether inside an organization in teams or between organizations in alliances, is established to achieve a result we cannot achieve alone. We can do it more effectively together. In […]

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That's all!

That's all!