Category: Organizational Culture

On Vertical Collaboration

I’ve been think­ing late­ly about “ver­ti­cal col­lab­o­ra­tion.” Ver­ti­cal col­lab­o­ra­tion is what hap­pens between peo­ple when there is a report­ing rela­tion­ship of some kind and a pow­er dif­fer­en­tial. Col­lab­o­ra­tion is often asso­ci­at­ed with equal pow­er and sta­tus, a “peer group” of some kind. But col­lab­o­ra­tion is also a skill pre­em­i­nent­ly to be mas­tered between the lay­ers… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Ver­ti­cal Collaboration

Holding Ourselves Back

If you like, you can lis­ten to me read this post. Recent­ly, I’ve been great­ly inspired by the pas­sion­ate writ­ing of Eve­lyn Rodriguez at her Cross­roads Dis­patch­es blog. In a cou­ple of recent post­ings, “The Time Has Come to Be Fear­less” and espe­cial­ly her elo­quent and heart-felt fol­low-up, “Still Fear­less,” she explores what I would… Con­tin­ue read­ing Hold­ing Our­selves Back

Deep Loneliness and the Raft of Self

Any­one who has tak­en the risk to live their per­son­al mean­ings is like­ly to come up against a dif­fi­cult fact: that to live in this cho­sen (and des­tined) way may also mean deep lone­li­ness. It is not always so, of course, but unless you are will­ing to ful­ly sur­ren­der to where your des­tiny might lead… Con­tin­ue read­ing Deep Lone­li­ness and the Raft of Self