Howard Betts

Slackers; Collaboration; and Coaching

‘In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed’[1] Charles Darwin Last week the global elite of wealthy investors, business leaders, bankers, political leaders, economists, and celebrities gathered at the annual conference of the World Economic Forum (WEF) …

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Collaboration: A Leap of Faith or a Highly Effective Way of Working?

The word ‘collaboration’ is today one of the most overused but least understood words in the lexicon of business.Collaboration is assumed to be a natural human process being defined in most dictionaries as ‘the action of working with someone to produce something’.This definition would best describe what most organisations today …

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