Craft
From Faster Than 20
Collaboration is a craft. Anyone can get better at it through intentional practice.
Principles
Core principles of high-performance collaboration:
- Everybody is people
- Alignment, not control
- Be intentional, but hold it lightly
- Make the implicit explicit and specific
- Celebrate, and keep improving
Other key concepts:
- Shared understanding
- Shared display
- Shared artifacts
- Leave a trail
- Information hygiene
- Space
- Work big
- Always be synthesizing
Process
- Listening
- Feedback
- Decision-making
- Visioning and backcasting
- Strategic doing
- Assessing
- Taking notes
- Photographing meetings
- Debriefing
- Embodied practice
- Cardboard boxes
- Personas
- Polarity Map
