Why Collaboration Is Hard When Others Look To You

Difference is present.

Attention finds a focus.

Context varies.

Examples accumulate.

Priorities converge.

Leadership coalesces.

Coordination forms.


Understanding aligns.	Understanding diverges.
Feedback drives change.	Disagreement is suppressed.
Leaders feel the consequences.	Exceptions are forever.
Feedback flows.	Feedback stops.
Assumptions are tested.	Learning collapses.
Dissent is welcomed.	Priorities conflict.
Ownership holds.	Ownership diffuses.
Work progresses.	Work stalls.
Trust grows.	Trust erodes.
Collaboration holds.	Coordination breaks.
	Collaboration fails.

Leadership reproduces itself.