Collaboration is critical for progressive organisations to succeed – so says HBR

Article by: Al Novas posted in June 2011. From Social Learning Blog: http://interactyx.com/social-learning-blog/collaboration-is-critical-for-success-says-hbr/

“On the cover of this month’s Harvard Business Review highlights the importance of collaboration at progressive companies. Collaboration has received a lot of press, now a centerpiece and on the cover of one of the top management and leadership publications in the world. So it must be important. I agree with HBR and the other articles that discuss the merits of collaboration, social and informal learning in the marketplace. (If interested in a free chapter from the new book The New Social Learning, just click through).

One scenario described in the article Are you a Collaborative Leader in this month’s HBR discusses how salesforce.com got its entire workforce engaged in their internal (now external) product called Chatter.”

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