“I’ve yet to meet a CEO who didn’t want his or her company to move faster,” wrote Ron Ricci, a Cisco executive. In this disruptive era, the companies that will survive are those that can adapt most swiftly. Rapidly exiting the Home Networking business, as Cisco did recently, couldn’t have happened if the firm had not developed a clear, transparent and collaborative decision making process according to Ricci and his Cisco colleague and co-author of The Collaboration Imperative, Carl Wiese.
That’s vital for organization-wide strategic alignment, yet extremely difficult to accomplish. As Collaboration author, Morten Hansen, discovered bad collaboration is much worse than no collaboration, so some of Ricci and Wiese’s hard-earned lessons at work may help you.