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8 Things You Need to Know About Collaboration

Dale Arsenault shares his thoughts on collaboration.

8 Things You Need to Know About Collaboration

1. Collaboration is over used and mis-used and is becoming a buzzword for business people and technologists alike
2. Collaboration isn?t the same as cooperation or coordination - each have different processes, practices and depth of engagement
3, Collaboration is a human process ? throwing technology at people won?t magically/automatically create collaboration
4, Meaningful, productive collaboration won?t happen without mutuality of desired outcomes, shared values of transparency and information sharing, compassion, compromise
5. Collaboration implies that "the needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few or the needs of the one" and sometimes people aren?t really interested in living by that principle
6. Collaboration isn?t always the best process
7. Collaboration is not equal to Web 2.0
8. Collaboration can be a source of real value in the face of complex environments and situations where no single person has the right answer."

It's so simple, really! And collaboration is the primary and critical key to success over the next decade in libraries.

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on December 11, 2009 (boomark / email).