I read an some interesting postings on CollaborativEye on the usefulness of Tacit knowledge to organizations and leadership's role in collaboration.
Imagine a company where everybody's knowledge could be shared quickly and easily to those who need it and didn't even know it existed.
Effectively, we have here the foundations for what might be seen as synergy...
1+1 = 3
It is true that collaboration is not meant to completely replace traditional structures.
We still need leadership and some sense of order if we are to avoid anarchy.
Too many chiefs and not enough Indians could definitely lead to problems.
If everyone is speaking and nobody is listening, this too is a concern.
Leaders need to guide collaborative projects, but should not control the process or it loses its organic strangth.
And as for those who still argue that collaboration is just another craze which isn't practical...
The results are in!
In the debate between collective knowledge sharing versus command ideology,
"Toyota beats Ford"... therefore "Bottom-up beats Top-down"...
What I really liked about the posting on the link provided below was its "how-to" conclusion...
For those who are:
(1) using inefficient interactive tools in their companies, with
(2) only text to communicate and educate instead of images, demos and presentations, and where
(3) many bureaucratic procedures are needed to do anything...
Collaboration may be perceived as being inefficient and inappropriate.
If these three conditions were changed, however, perhaps they would be singing a different tune.
Please feel free to read the orginal postings that inspired this, as well as others, at:
http://www.collaborativeye.com/collaboration_journal/category/collaborative-leadership
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