Collaboration is HARD. There are leadership maturity hurdles as well as culture and systemic challenges to overcome. As leaders, we need to manage the polarity of individual achievement and collective success. In this way we might overcome power struggles for effective collaboration.

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The future of leadership relies on collaboration.

Why you should listen: at the source of power struggles are leadership maturity and systems

• The tension is a polarity to manage, not a problem to resolve.

We explore the dynamics of polarity management to mitigate power struggles

• Benefits of individual achievement and its cultural roots

• Benefits of collective success and its collaboration imperative

• Avoid the pitfalls of too much of or the other: it’s not an either/or choice but an AND.

Take action

• Make sure your KPIs have both individual and collective measures and results.

• Establish rituals for acknowledging individual contributions AND collective outcomes.

• Make sure your reporting is transparent for both individuals and the collective.

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Key Moments

00:00 Introduction and Overview

00:26 AI and Health Coaching - Arianna Huffington and Open AI partner for Thrive A.I. Health

03:44 Personal Updates and Projects: Olympus Rising, Power Games, Grace Under Fire

05:42 Challenges in Collaboration

09:40 Balancing Individual and Collective Success: a polarity to manage

18:10 Read to Lead: Book Recommendation - Rohot Baharva’s Non-Obvious Thinking - How to see what others don’t

20:26 Conclusion and Next Week's Preview

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