{"id":10026,"date":"2012-05-28T10:45:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T14:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/news_blogs\/john\/?p=10026"},"modified":"2024-12-23T18:22:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T23:22:03","slug":"why-collaboration-isnt-a-good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2012\/05\/why-collaboration-isnt-a-good-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Collaboration Isn&#8217;t a Good Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the 2011 National Summit for the Charitable and Nonprofit Sector I heard a tongue-in-cheek debate on the topic: <strong>Be it resolved that closer collaboration within the sector does not produce better outcomes<\/strong>. Dr. Roger Gibbins, president and CEO of Canada West Foundation, gamely spoke in favour of the resolution and&nbsp;surprisingly, in a world that highly values collaboration,&nbsp;came up with some really good points!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nine Problems with Collaboration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I believe that collaboration is very helpful both for achieving maximum mission success and for Christian witness, but if you collaborate with others, then here are&nbsp;the issues&nbsp;you will have to deal with in order to do it successfully:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Collaboration weakens brand and identity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Collaboration\u00a0takes a lot of time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A single voice is\u00a0not as effective as a thousand voices.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We&#8217;re after the same money.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mantra is &#8220;Focus, focus, focus!&#8221; but collaboration is &#8220;Abandon focus and join us.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Collaboration\u00a0blunts nuances.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If knowledge is your capital, collaboration weakens your uniqueness.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Collaboration\u00a0is a top down process.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Collaboration\u00a0forces you to middle ground which is not usually the best position.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine reasons why collaboration might not be a good idea. If you want to collaborate, take these issues into account when planning. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2012\/05\/why-collaboration-isnt-a-good-idea\/\" class=\"linkbutton\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ts_fic_featured_image_caption":"Craft paint bottles strewn on a table covered in multicoloured paint splatters. <span>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@ricardoviana?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Ricardo Viana<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/span>","footnotes":""},"categories":[558,553,623,221,663],"tags":[119,49,747,651],"series":[],"class_list":["post-10026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaborative","category-effective","category-healthy","category-leadership-organizational","category-winning-strategy-healthy","tag-collaboration","tag-execution","tag-external-collaboration","tag-works-outside-organizational-boundaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10026"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=10026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}