individuals in teams create value
Why is work so painful for everyone?
collaboration makes work successful
We must plan our work together, because it’s our work.
We need to respect and expect professionalism.
We need a shared Right Environment where we have the ability to act with confidence.
We need a system to see our work, have access to crucial information, and build real systems of trust.
We need to learn and adapt in real-time, providing services or products we are proud of.
We need to work together, not just in teams, but as an organization. No silos. No divisions.
We need professional agency and less reliance on centralized micromanagement.
We need practical action.
Jim Benson
focus on collaboration, productivity will follow
Who is Jim Benson?
For over 35 years, Jim has helped create high performing organizations, teams, and people by getting professionals the information they need, when they need it. His teams have recorded music, written books, built subway systems, planned cities, created software, provided international aid, and more.
All of them languished before they had a practical system of working together. All thrived after.
He is the CEO of Modus Cooperandi and co-founder of Modus Institute. This book is a loving distillation of hundreds of personal collaborations.
What is the collaboration equation?
Individuals in teams create value.
We are all individual professionals, but no one works alone. We all work with purpose. We run into trouble when we are isolated…from others, from information, from the ability to act.
When we are isolated, we lose the ability to be professional. We cannot act with confidence, so we do not act at all.
This book helps us give real, useful definitions to vague buzz-words like culture, collaboration, and leadership. The Collaboration Equation provides much needed tools of alignment, respect, and completion in a time where confusion, fear, and stagnation are the norm.
The principles
Individuals work in teams
Real world stories from different industries
Collaboration is required for a healthy culture.
We've lived for 100 years under worst practices
Real people are hurt by anti-collaboration.
Solve the problems you have always suffered.
Detailed hand-out style broadsheets for new ideas and activites.
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