Author: Shubhadeep B.

Links of Interest – 02Jul2010

  1. How Google Search Works (Infographic)
  2. The Boston Globe: Big Picture : Afghanistan June 2010 Yet another incredible news story in photographs – Afghanistan this time.
  3. IBM shifts to Firefox "There’s another reason we want to get as many of our employees using Firefox as soon as possible, and that is Cloud Computing. For the shift to the cloud to be successful, open standards must be used in the infrastructure, in the applications, and in the way people exchange data."
  4. Joel Stein creates a storm with his article on Indians in NJ. And Kal Penn responds to the xenophobia in Huffington Post.

Collaboration – More or The Right Way?

The idealist in me would like to believe that collaboration within organizations is an absolute must. More the better. Or is it?

Morten Hansen questions the above & shares his perspective on The Right Way to Collaborate in this HBR podcast.

Good hear.

My key takeaways from this piece –

More efforts to improve collaboration is not always better. Do not take up initiatives for the sake of collaboration alone. Instead focus on the business goals expected from collaboration.

The collaboration jig saw has multiple pieces – common organizational goals, type of people, people’s collaboration competencies, reward mechanism & structure. You need to get a certain extent of all of them right to leverage collaboration.

Other resources on the topic that might interest you:

Photo Tip – What’s the caption?

In a DPS interview of wild life photographer Chris Weston, he gives this tip to beginners that could be useful for many of us: 

Before I press the shutter I ask myself the question “How would I caption this image?”. If the only answer I can conjure is the species name, then I wait for a better shot.