From Collaboration to Innovation
Innovation is the blood brother of Collaboration, the action of working with someone to produce or create something. The awful truth is that the vast amount of attention that goes into innovation in business, government, military and society is wasted time because of inattention to Collaboration in the first place. Energy flows where the attention goes. Attention to Innovation without full attention to Collaboration is a fool’s errand doing the same thing endlessly expecting a different result. The heart of Collaboration is the ability to connect and move on, generous listening, curiosity, straight talk, coach-ability and willingness to let go. That’s the transformation always available that stays hidden by power and position, self importance, impatience and the absence of dialogue. Our collective delusion is that “I am not you”, that we are truly separate when what’s really going on is the experience and phenomenon that it’s “us” and the space between us where innovation actually happens.
That’s our mission. Let’s wake up to that.
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Collaborative Innovation: A Journal
Issue One: The Most Important Questions For Our Time
In this first Journal issue, we address Buckminster Fuller’s question from which he created his extraordinary inventive technical and social inventions and projects. At this extraordinary time of social, political and economic disintegration, with respect to Collaborative Innovation, what is the most important question we can ask, and why?
Following are the authors and articles for this issue:
GARRY JACOBS - President and CEO of the World Academy of Art & Science
THE UPLIFTING POWER OF HUMAN INTERACTION
DANIEL SHAPIRO Ph.D. - Director, founder, director, and active mediator in the Harvard International Negotiation Program
OPTIMAL COLLABORATION: A THREE-TIERED PROCESS
DR. ROBERT BARTHELEMY - Founding Director of the Wright Brothers Institute and it’s IDEA Lab
WHAT WOULD IT TAKE FOR US TO SUCCEED?
MARILYN J. SMITH - Director of Civil Justice Programs for the Indiana Bar Foundation
WHAT IS MY PERSONAL TRUTH AND HOW CAN I LIVE CONSISTENT WITH MY VALUES?
RODOLFO A. FIORINI - Professor of Bioengineering at Politecnico di Milano University, Milano, Italy
THE ROOTS OF COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION
DR. CHARLES E. SMITH - (Executive Editor of Collaborative Innovation: A Journal, and a highly-experienced Executive Coach, Futurist and Author), and RICHARD WHITEHURST – (Founder and Director of The Overview Institute of Australia and its sister organization, Planetary Human)
COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION AND THE OVERVIEW EFFECT
RICHARD HILL MA, MEd, MBMSc - A practicing psychotherapist/counselor, author, educator, professional supervisor, and a world authority on the power of curiosity
COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION: WHAT TURNS IT OFF AND WHAT TURNS IT ON?
DR. DAVID NORRIS - Forty years as a college teacher, manager, international consultant and coach.
THE SPACE BETWEEN US: AN APPROACH TO COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION
ROBERT E. JOHNSTON JR. - Founder and Managing Associate, Strategy Innovation Group, LLC
COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION BUILDS GLOBAL SOCIAL RESILIENCE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
ALAINA CUGNON - CEO of Purpose Linked Consulting (PLC) and a nationally recognized expert in leadership, purpose and passion
PASSION AND PURPOSE ARE LEVERS FOR SUSTAINING COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION
TONY TURNBULL - 25 years in the consumer products industry in supply chain, HR, and product launch functions, and another 25 years consulting to international companies around the world.
ROB NOYES SMITH - Born in England, Rob grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) where he served as an army officer in the Kings African Rifles and SAS. He now concentrates internationally on executive coaching and writing.