Five challenges of collaboration

- Collaboration is hard, but why?…Well, there are five main challenges we have to resolve…to get our collaboration to really work.…Challenge number one, trust.…Effective relationships are the foundation…of collaboration.…Without trust, effective collaboration is nearly impossible.…For me to ask you to do something,…I have to believe, to trust,…that you'll respect my request and do it correctly.…I also have to believe that you trust…that I'll do my part correctly, too.…

Without this, we end up doing all the work ourselves…or waste time double checking every detail…of each other's work.…Let's go to challenge number two, attachment.…This means you're so invested in your own ideas…that the separation between your ego and your ideas…has disappeared.…This happens to all of us.…We love our own ideas.…I mean, aren't our ideas always amazing?…Well, advocating for your perspective is good,…but we can get too attached.…When we're too attached,…it gets hard to think that there could be…another perspective that's as useful as ours.…