Radical Collaboration
October 22nd, 2004“Collaborative skills have never been more important. At work, you can’t afford to be defensive, hostile, or even too cynical. It’s never easy, but getting along with your colleagues or customers is imperative, whether you’re on a long-term assignment, a temporary project, or a virtual team where you’re connected to colleagues only by cell phone and e-mail.”
“Radical Collaboration: Five Essential Skills to Overcome Defensiveness and Build Successful Relationships is a how-to manual for anyone who wants to be more skillful at building relationships, both professional and personal. James W. Tamm and Ronald J. Luyet will show you how to gently look inside yourself for the answers, with page after page of thoughtful exercises and probing tools that will increase your skills. The four introspective skills you will learn are: Collaborative Intention, Truthfulness, Self-Accountability, and Self-Awareness and Awareness of Others.”
It’s on my “to read” list. Great stuff for my research into collaborative efforts. I read about “cross-functional collaboration” today in The Hidden Power of Social Networks and I immediately thought about the numerous departments in medium to large sized libraries as well as branch libraries. Cross-functional network analysis can, in a general sense, help collaborative efforts in these settings.
Another book I have to get my hands on when it gets released is Networks, Trust and Social Capital Theoretical and Empirical Investigations from Europe
Whew! I’m getting really excited about this stuff. I just wish I had more time…