collaboration Archives

Practical Ideas for Fostering True Collaboration: A Frontline Festival

by Karin Hurt and David Dye | Sep 20, 2018 | By Karin Hurt and David Dye, Frontline Festival | 0 comments

This months topic, collaboration, is particularly poignant for me, as the Frontline Festival has now been an active collaborative adventure including thought leaders around the world for five-and-a-half years. In March of 2013, while still working at Verizon and...

Collaboration – Can We Really Trust You?

by David Dye | Apr 3, 2018 | By David Dye, Relationships, Winning Well | 0 comments

It’s easy to talk about collaboration. It’s much harder to do it. After visiting one of our clients in Guatemala City, Karin, Sebastian, and I traveled to Antigua, Guatemala where my daughter owns a clothing design business. She took us to Hobbitengango, a...

Why Your Team Won’t Collaborate (and What To Do About It)

by David Dye | Jan 9, 2018 | By David Dye, Results & Execution, Winning Well | 2 comments

Why Your Team Won’t Collaborate and What to Do About It “I’m sick of this crap! My team won’t collaborate – why can’t they just figure this out?” Scott was CEO of an engineering firm that produced communications hardware and software for industries...

5 Ways to Strengthen Your Career Network

by Karin Hurt | Mar 11, 2015 | By Karin Hurt, Communication, Confident Humility, Employee Engagement & Energy, Results & Execution | 65 comments

Strengthen Your Career Network By Leveraging Weak Ties I would describe our meeting as a roll of the dice. Perhaps someday we will upgrade our relationship to “weak ties,” but yesterday we were just two of eight hundred and fifty humans at the Great Ideas...

5 Reasons to Lose a Battle- And How To Lose It With Grace

by Karin Hurt | Jul 14, 2014 | Authenticity & Transparency, By Karin Hurt, Communication | 11 comments

If I had to pick a side, I would have chosen hers. But picking sides was entirely beside the point. The other guy’s heels were dug in deeper than skis sunk in a tree well of deep powder. No amount of convincing was going to change his mind. “It’s...