Archive for July, 2007

Team Building: TransCompetition

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

I’ve beat the dead horse of high performance teamwork for some time now. I’ve even mentioned the bad things about being too collaborative. I thought it is time to get a more balanced view between being too collaborative (supercollaboration) and too competitive (supercompetition). A concept I call TransCompetition.
Think of TransCompetition as a grafting of fruit [...]

Team Effectiveness: The Hazards of Collaboration

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

If competition is “bad,” then collaboration must always be good, right?
Wrong. Pure collaboration is as problematic as pure competition. Each has its purposes. But each, practiced to the exclusion of the other, leads to collapse.
Unabated competition, like a Panzer division rolling over Poland, creates a spirit of over-the-top, scorched-earth absolutism — legitimizing whatever means result [...]