Tending to long-term landscape health and resilience is a highly complex enterprise. To address this complexity, we must imagine and facilitate a community-based response that is just as complex, ...

Collaboration has become an essential ingredient for organizational success (perhaps even survival). As organizations move toward more collaborative cultures, a new leadership model is emerging – one ...

It’s easy to say that organizations should be collaborative, but what does that actually mean? And what does it take from executives and board members to actually make it happen? In their articles The ...

When the word “collaboration” is spoken in a school, it is not always welcomed with open arms. Educators or leaders who have had success or are comfortable working solo may feel they are being ...

An intriguing email popped up on my laptop last January from Stanford Live regarding a casting call for community “civilian” performers for Bolero Silicon Valley. To celebrate Stanford’s 125th ...

As much anguish as I have about the state of the world—hunger, social inequality, violence, environmental degradation, and more—I also am continually and repeatedly in awe and excitement about living ...

Many of the core challenges that today’s organizations face require employees to connect with colleagues beyond their own teams. These cross-silo collaborations are vital to merging diverse expertise, ...

Two leadership paradigms were preeminent during the 20th century — the power paradigm and the people paradigm. The power paradigm (hierarchy) was created in the early 1900s as part of the industrial ...

For any Smithie who wants to change something for the better! To make real change, you will have to work with other people to understand and address complex challenges, and the Collaborative ...

Under the learning and innovation skills came the 4 C’s, which are critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity. Although the mandates and accountability measures from the US ...