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BUSINESS BASICS
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Exponential effort
How to make collaboration work at your shop
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t's said that two heads are better than one.
But if two were good, three, four, or more might be
even better. That's how I found myself at a small company that had big aspirations for a short-term project.
The assignment was simple, at least on paper: We
would all collaborate to pull together a winning presentation in short order, and we would each bring our own
little bit of unique experience to create a sum greater than
our parts. Sounds easy.
Long story short, we succeeded. But we did so in spite
of everything. It was less a meeting of the minds than a
butting of the heads, and we tripped over company politics, suffered favoritism, chased moving targets, and piv42
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oted endlessly to meet changing strategies.
Sometimes, you get lucky. As it is, none of us have gone
out of our way to try it again.
This, of course, highlights the downside of collaboration,
and it shoves a stick in the spokes of the idea that all collaboration is good all the time. But this case also leaves a
lot of room for it to go right when it's managed better.
In its basic form, collaboration allows a group to explore
a problem to find solutions that none of its individual
members would have come up with on their own; that's
fundamentally why we work in companies. After all, no
one person can master every bit of the puzzle. Together, the
group generates novel insights, tactics, applications, and,
in theory, the group that succeeds once is better prepared
to do it again as they build working relationships and practices, so it reaps both short- and long-term benefits.
The problem is that collaboration is a learned skill that
takes practice, and most employees aren't trained to do it
well. Even when they are, they're not empowered to share
information or decision-making tasks, they're not encouraged to learn from one another, and they don't receive recognition for even trying, according to business consultant
Bruce Mayhew.
But a company that needs its people to be agile, smart
and creative needs collaboration so its people come together for the good of the business. For an avionics shop to get
there, you must understand what collaboration does and
how you can put it to use with your people to advance your
team's efforts exponentially.
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