Steve Finegan asked:
>What are the top two or three physical and psychological barriers to
>cooperation and collaboration in organizations today, and what are some
>effective strategies and tactics for breaking them down.
I think that the main barrier is, that in cooperation one depend on others
in that way, that they need to fulfill their committments. Its about two
questions: "Can I trust the others? How can I decide whether I can trust
the other?" As a check you may ask yourself: "Can the others trust me?"
and every honest answer will include some kind of: "It depends on...", so
concluding from oneself to the others makes it even harder to just jump
into the adventure of trusting.
An effective strategy would be "simply" to set an ambitious target:
Target: Everybody agrees that if would be good if that target would be
achieved.
Ambitious: Nobody believes that can be achieved.
And then collect answers to the question "why can it not be achieved" -
collect all obstacles.
And then derive all intermediate objectives, that need to be achieved in
order to overcome any of the obstacles.
And finally put all the intermediate objectives on a time line in the
logical order in which they need to be achieved.
The result should be a draft for a project plan and a team spirit that
already has started to work on the project while still stating, "Well,
this is going to become difficult..."
I can't end this mail without acknowledging, that I got these ideas from
the eighth session of the Goldratt Satellite Program
Liebe Gruesse,
Winfried
--"Winfried Dressler" <winfried.dressler@voith.de>
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