Climbing the Collaboration Mountain: The Six Ultimate Steps

Now more than ever, we need to brainstorm creative ways to partner and collaborate with community allies and organizations. Here we share a April 2017 Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) article by social change strategist Jacob Harald: The Collaboration Game: Solving the Puzzle of Nonprofit Partnership. Using game theory, he explains how organizations can overcome a negative mindset and resistance to collaboration to the mutual benefit of all.

Climbing the Collaboration Mountain: The Six Ultimate Steps

1. Define the community

2. Name the weakness

3. Identify the sherpa

4. Make explicit the implicit division of labor

5. Demonstrate proof points

6. Design collective systems