CHAPTER 11
Collaboration
How Can You Work Together to Get Things Done in the Ecosystem?
Collaboration surrounds us. In nature, bees form a hive, ants form a colony, birds fly in formation—all these forms of collaboration make the whole tribe more than the individual members. Systems theory teaches us that individual parts do not operate as well independently as they do through interdependence or collaboration. The parts of a car do not make the car until they come together; a steering wheel or wheel axle is useless without the other parts working as a system. In political systems, a federation combines individual states or provinces into a more viable nation, or group of “united” states.
And for human beings, collaboration is pervasive. The ...
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