Much is spoken of team work and now more than ever relying soley on top performers and exeptional talent is not enough. Collaboration is the way forward and builds ever further on the active development of our social networks. People Management Magazine suggests "HR has been obsessed with high performing individuals for too long. The real engine of creativity and organisational success is to be found in internal networks of friendship and collaboration" http://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/pm/articles/2011/03/organisational-learning-the-social-network.htm
This may sound a twee concept but think about it, would you share an idea or proposal with someone you didn't trust. How many of us use our trusted colleagues and networks as a sounding board to try things out before putting them forward to the board or our manager? What this means is that the concept gets improved and honed to the point of commercial/business reality.
Steve Jobs was asked by Business Week what was the "seed" of innovation at Apple Inc he said "Innovation comes from people meeting up in hallways or calling each other at 10.30pm with a new idea. It's adhoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest thing ever and wants other people to think of his idea". Apple seem to be getting it right we could take a leaf out of their book?
Kate Peacock
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