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Collaboration & Six Ways to Make It Work

You're Not the Boss of Me

It was lovely to see the easy cooperation that danced among them as they shared the various pieces of playground equipment and discussed the merits of this climbing apparatus over that. Some people think that collaboration is just like that… playing and working together cooperatively for a common purpose.

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Six Ways To Make Collaboration Work

You're Not the Boss of Me

It was lovely to see the easy cooperation that danced among them as they shared the various pieces of playground equipment and discussed the merits of this climbing apparatus over that. Some people think that collaboration is just like that… playing and working together cooperatively for a common purpose.

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More than One Way to Organize a Business

Thin Difference

Instead of operating top-down, power is distributed throughout the organization, giving individuals and teams more freedom to self-manage, while staying aligned to the organization’s purpose. Cooperatives. Key Elements of Cooperatives. A part of the capital is usually the common property of the cooperative.

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Alibaba Looks More Like GE than Google

Harvard Business Review

Instead, it operates more like GE. Competition trumps cooperation, and distributed decision-making by individual business units trumps universal strategy. Conglomerates resist this approach, combining more diverse businesses and allowing them separate decision-making structures. Investors are wary of this approach.

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