Collaboration ABC

Collaboration is the only team sport in the world which is played without agreed-upon rules. My mission is to change this. The Collaboration ABC is both, an evolving set of "rules" and a curated collection of resources for personal study and discovery. It is the distilled wisdom from a large number of research papers, books, TED talks, articles and interviews, as well as my own experience. Start exploring it now, and invite the rest of your team to do the same. Once you agree on this alphabet, collaboration in your team will improve, day by day. Check out our resource section for free downloads, like a cheat sheet that can be attached to your monitor. Planning to share the Collaboration ABC with your team or community, e.g. in your blog or website? Just copy&paste the relevant links from this page to even include the interactive version! Enjoy your journey towards better collaboration! Tobias PS: I'd love to hear from you! Please share your feedback, qestions and ideas to tobias(at)windbrake.com

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