3:07 Why do people think collaboration is scary?
- Take the mask off of collaboration
- There are positive and negative experiences with collaboration
6:00 Brad’s Bad Collaboration Experience
- Someone comes with an idea
- You believe in the idea
- Your set of skills are helpful
- But...you realize the person with the idea doesn’t have anything else to offer
- Need to work with individuals who have something more to offer than an idea
- If you can’t execute = no collaboration
- You can waste a lot of people’s time in the process
- “You make decisions to make things happen”- B
9:35 Need to have plans laid out
- Gif 10:20 of Brad walking into bad collaborations over and over
- Everyone has probably been ill prepared at some point in time
- Basic premise of collaboration
- You have an idea
- People execute the idea
- Can fall apart
12:04 Walking Through Not Following A Plan
- You need to follow through
- Someone usually thinks they don’t need help because their plan is the best
- “I love the convenient placement of the brick wall” -M (Applied to Gif and bad collaboration)
- It is important to improvise, adapt, and overcome-B
15:11 Relate to Episode 65
- There is fighting, flighting, and freezing in almost all collaborative efforts
- We live in an instant gratification world where people want things to go right the first time
- It never is like this
- People will be disappointed
- Vision is also important in collaboration to be on the same page
- It is okay to not have a successful collaboration with the same people
18:01 Leadership has shifted from vision centric
- You need to be resilient enough to try again in a different way if collaboration doesn’t work
- You may see things differently
- Have different knowledge
- Even if the plan is perfect, someone may throw a wrench in the plan
- Unpredictable
- Out of our control
- Go in with a mindset of “Change is okay” so collaboration isn’t scary
21: 00 Check in and Adjust
- Need to make sure you are on track
- “Be ready when things don’t seem right” -B
- “That is why that needs to be built in” -M
- “The only way you can achieve collaboration is by putting in the time and energy” -M
24:00 Collaborating is a long game
- Check in as you go in a collaboration
- Maintain alignment
- Having shared value is key
- You need to be ready to pivot
- “Great collaboration is communicative and generative”- M
27: 23 Implications of BlackBoxing
- This is when you are asking for orders not collaboration
- There can be a reason for doing this
- But not managing through collaboration
- 95% of the time blackboxing does not work for collaboration
- Can be used an intellectual property for some people
30:00 Need to Define What Collaboration Is
- Blackboxing should not be a practice because it is purely intrinsic in certain situations
- You need to feel that you are needed and have contribution in collaboration
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