Leaders Practice Collaboration

Proverbs 15:22 (NLV) Plans go wrong without talking together, but they will go well when many wise men talk about what to do.

Fresh perspectives are vital to innovation. Research has shown that collaboration that results from participative management in a flat organization drives better business decisions. According to Sirota, Mischkind and Meltzer in The Enthusiastic Employee, camaraderie that grows in a collaborative environment is one of the fundamental desires of employees. In Built To Last, Collins and Porras found that higher performing companies promoted from within – a process facilitated in a collaborative environment which does not happen in a vacuum:  it is the result of people actually talking together - not a person telling someone something.

Are you leading by collaborating or by telling? Your key employee turnover may be a key to the answer.

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