Let’s Get Together

There’s a real buzz around collaboration at the moment.
Lots of opportunities and lots of people getting involved.
But are we really making the most of the situation?
When it comes to collaboration, you need to enter into the spirit of it.
That means no preconceptions, no agenda.
Remember the big blue genie in Disney’s Aladdin?
He offered three wishes, along with a few conditions.
Aladdin was incredulous:
“Conditions... on wishes?”
He knew that conditions negate the very idea of a wish.
And that’s how it works with collaboration.
Open minds are what’s needed, not preconceptions.
Maybe it’s an age thing.
After too long spent doing things our way, we become reluctant to show much flexibility.
It’s a little like the dating game.
When you’re young, you enter into it willing to go with the flow and see what comes out of it.
Bright eyed and bushy tailed.
Then, as you get older, you start applying all kinds of conditions.
That’s really no way to work.
And besides, you just end up lonely.