Episode 47 - The Cost of Collaboration

Collaboration is important… like really important. At our infamous “day job” its even one of our core values… without it what we do every day, plainly, wouldn’t be possible…

So, when something is that important… is there a “wrong” way to do it? 

What happens when a team that used to share four walls and a roof suddenly find themselves spread across a city if not a continent? What used to be a simple knock on the door is now a seemingly ever-more-complex mind reading trick of finding the right moment to disrupt a co-worker without completely destroying their work flow…

You see, in short, even something so basic and so foundationally important can be done wrong… it does come at a cost… especially in the remote-heavy world we now find ourselves in…

Basic social queues can evaporate into the mist of a Slack channel, and what used to be simple team-building by exposure now requires an intentional formula of prompts, nudges, and sometimes outright forced interaction…

In this post-pandemic society then, how can we best use this magical technology to bridge the gap and strengthen bonds while being a globe apart… what is the Cost of Collaboration?