Developing a Collaborative Ecosystem is the Path to Success

Developing a Collaborative Ecosystem is the Path to Success

By Brett Hickey, Founder & CEO, Star Mountain Capital

“We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall hang separately.” – Benjamin Franklin, shortly before singing the U.S. Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

Students of leadership become very familiar with the core principle of common interests, or stated otherwise, aligned interests. Whether through case studies or exercises, they learn empirically what most of us understand intuitively; a group that is united via one or more common goals will tend to work more effectively with one another than those fractured by competing interests, particularly over the long term. I always suggest people make things simple and illustrate ideas graphically whenever possible. Draw two lines on different gradients and extrapolate out, what you see is that the two ends, which started at the same origin, become very far apart at the end. As such, we always suggest people work very hard at clear, transparent and aligned objectives.

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