Tag: agency

Weaving Collaborative Networks – 2

Post author By John Folk-Williams
Post date 11:30 am
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I want to pick up the theme of the last post in this series and explore the relationship between public policy consensus building for purposes of conflict resolution and the formation and growth of self-organizing networks. Although there are many differences, both have similar long-term goals and can complement each other effectively. In the earlier […]

Tags adaptation, agency, agreement, collaboration, communication, conflict, Consensus Building, influence, Networks, power, process, relationships, trust

Collaborative Leadership

Who Controls Collaboration?

Post author By John Folk-Williams
Post date 12:37 pm

Who controls collaboration? That might seem a contradiction in terms since the process itself requires joint decisions by the participants. But the issue of control doesn’t go away so easily. Several months into policy negotiations with a large collaborative group, I arrived at the last planning session for a critical meeting that was to take […]

Tags agency, authority, collaboration, control, convener, decisions, elected officials, hierarchy, manage, mindset, officials, participants, policy, power, problem-solving, public, risk, stakeholders