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

Living Into Being

This is the last of five posts on find­ing free­dom from roles and life-scripts that inter­fere with effec­tive lead­er­ship and per­son­al ful­fill­ment. If you like, you can hear me read this post. The oth­er posts are: The Jour­ney of Unlearn­ing Lead­ing is Not Act­ing: What Roles Do You Play? The Cost of the Script Dis­cern­ing Untruth: Cre­ative… Con­tin­ue read­ing Liv­ing Into Being