I met with my co-authors for the Learning Science Guidebook last night, and as we were talking, i said how grateful i was to them, because i really don’t collaborate with many people at all. Not for writing. I find it’s one of the hardest things to do.
My most productive writing partnership, with Sae, is successful because she both challenges me, but also has a great humility around her work, so we both find ourselves moving to a common ground, and also have a strength to share our differences too (that sharing of differences will be a final published feature of this work - not one voice, but two).
But usually, i struggle: not because i don’t want to collaborate, but because it feels like work. Hard work.
Use your sixty seconds today to think about when you collaborate, and what makes it work: and is that a trait you bring, or something others bring, or even something about the culture you operate in?
Modern Organisations talk a lot about collaboration, but it’s a hard thing to pull off.
Day #294 - Difficult Collaboration