by Dan Stephens
11/10/2009 11:41:00 PM
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Dedicated to learning better management techniques, I am an avid reader of everything management related. My personal favorites are the “21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership”, by John Maxwell and from “Good to Great” by Jim Collins. Together I believe those two books will guide people with the aptitude for leadership to excel in management.
They are an excellent tutorial on management leadership they are also very “politically correct”. I am not “politically correct” and believe I have found a few pearls of wisdom that the inner leader in all of us might find enlightening.
- Learn that “Collaboration” is a process and NOT a set of tools.
The last piece of politically incorrect advice I can give all managers in this day of social networking is to understand that “Collaboration” is a process and it is not a set of magic tools. Collaboration is what you do in the execution of your unique business processes that make you and your team successful.
The hype about the tools from Cisco, Microsoft or Google may convince you that you cannot live without some widget in order to collaborate, but collaboration is broader than any one tool or set of tools. I challenge you to think of Collaboration in the following terms; process, culture and technology.
Build a communications strategy that will introduce technology into your existing business processes that do not disrupt your culture, but result in improving your process response times. If you follow this process it will cause the culture to automagically shift and the technology adoption will help to accelerate the success wheel.
Why is this a politically incorrect tip? I manage a Collaboration Practice for a UC partner that makes its money selling widgets that you must have. Therefore it is very politically incorrect for me to tell you that you want to evaluate the widgets for the proper fit into your processes before you buy it. Good Luck in your management endeavors.
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