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Episode 66: Collaboration Isn't Scary

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3:07 Why do people think collaboration is scary?

  • Take the mask off of collaboration
  • There are positive and negative experiences with collaboration

    • 6:00 Brad’s Bad Collaboration Experience

    • Someone comes with an idea
      • You believe in the idea
      • Your set of skills are helpful
      • But...you realize the person with the idea doesn’t have anything else to offer
      • Need to work with individuals who have something more to offer than an idea
      • If you can’t execute = no collaboration
      • You can waste a lot of people’s time in the process
      • “You make decisions to make things happen”- B

        • 9:35 Need to have plans laid out

        • Gif 10:20 of Brad walking into bad collaborations over and over
        • Everyone has probably been ill prepared at some point in time
        • Basic premise of collaboration
          • You have an idea
          • People execute the idea
          • Can fall apart

            • 12:04 Walking Through Not Following A Plan

            • You need to follow through
            • Someone usually thinks they don’t need help because their plan is the best
            • “I love the convenient placement of the brick wall” -M (Applied to Gif and bad collaboration)
            • It is important to improvise, adapt, and overcome-B

              • 15:11 Relate to Episode 65

              • There is fighting, flighting, and freezing in almost all collaborative efforts
              • We live in an instant gratification world where people want things to go right the first time
                • It never is like this
                • People will be disappointed
                • Vision is also important in collaboration to be on the same page
                • It is okay to not have a successful collaboration with the same people

                  • 18:01 Leadership has shifted from vision centric

                  • You need to be resilient enough to try again in a different way if collaboration doesn’t work
                    • You may see things differently
                    • Have different knowledge
                    • Even if the plan is perfect, someone may throw a wrench in the plan
                      • Unpredictable
                      • Out of our control
                      • Go in with a mindset of “Change is okay” so collaboration isn’t scary

                        • 21: 00 Check in and Adjust

                        • Need to make sure you are on track
                        • “Be ready when things don’t seem right” -B
                          • “That is why that needs to be built in” -M
                          • “The only way you can achieve collaboration is by putting in the time and energy” -M

                            • 24:00 Collaborating is a long game

                            • Check in as you go in a collaboration
                            • Maintain alignment
                            • Having shared value is key
                            • You need to be ready to pivot
                            • “Great collaboration is communicative and generative”- M

                              • 27: 23 Implications of BlackBoxing

                              • This is when you are asking for orders not collaboration
                                • There can be a reason for doing this
                                • But not managing through collaboration
                                • 95% of the time blackboxing does not work for collaboration
                                • Can be used an intellectual property for some people

                                  • 30:00 Need to Define What Collaboration Is

                                  • Blackboxing should not be a practice because it is purely intrinsic in certain situations
                                  • You need to feel that you are needed and have contribution in collaboration

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