When you bring people together to build a business, effectiveness depends on the quality of collaboration, conversation and innovation.

Inspired by the Dish with One Spoon

2025-06-18T10:15:01-04:00February 1, 2024|Alignment and effectiveness|

Having recently arrived in Canada, I am inspired by the first people of this land who created a wampum (covenant) called The Dish with One Spoon. And grateful to meet so many people here in what was first called “T'karonto” who are moved to honour this treaty made between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas, and Haudenosaunee, where nations entered into an agreement to protect the land and responsibly [...]

What it really takes for Smart Collaboration

2025-06-18T10:15:40-04:00April 20, 2019|Alignment and effectiveness|

Business cases for smart collaboration abound, yet genuine creative collaboration in business is remarkably rare. As Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School Heidi Gardner PhD points out in her forthcoming book Smart Collaboration, people need to collaborate across a variety of specializations as well as personal and cultural differences for them and their businesses to really garner the dividends of smart collaboration. What’s needed is both the logical [...]

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