"Companies don’t fail at collaboration because not enough people will cooperate with one another...."

“Companies don’t fail at collaboration because not enough people will cooperate with one another. They fail when people work too closely in certain teams, functions, or departments without any regard for the rest of the organization.”

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Alison Beard talking about Gillian Tett’s observations, Collaborate for Real

This is why the future of work is about fast and loose companies.

Beard summarizes recent books by Gillian Tett (The Silo Effect), Adam Galinsky and Maurice Schweitzer (Friend & Foe), Dawna Markova and Angie McArthur (Collaborative Intelligence), and Ken Blanchard (Collaboration Begins with You).

from Stowe Boyd http://stoweboyd.com/post/128629121007