Technologies for collaboration are improving faster than people’s ability to learn to use them.
. . . in today’s marketplace, the smartest companies aren’t those that necessarily out-produce the competition . . . it’s the organizations that outthink them.
After a lot of co-creation and trial-and-error, Elisa Steele and Mark Bonchek developed a three-step method that delivers practical and meaningful results. The steps are:
- Focus – identify the focus of your thinking in a particular context or setting.
- Orientation – notice whether your orientation in that setting swings toward the big picture or the details.
- Combining focus and orientation – combine these two dimensions and see the thinking style at work in whatever context or setting you chose.
Source: Ascend from HBR. Link.
The landscape of business is changing rapidly . . . Understanding collaboration through the lens of thinking rather than doing is a practical and powerful step forward.
INSIGHTS: Practice managers, team leaders and senior leadership can gain insight from spending an hour on this article during a team meeting. Send it ahead of the meeting so team members have time to review and reflect before gathering.