WAY 45Invite Radical Collaboration: Bringing your team into the vision execution ensures greater ownership.
About the Way
Radical collaboration describes the high‐value interactions of project teams, when team members are truly collaborating and co‐developing, not just coordinating or cooperating, on work together. In addition, these teams are engaging outsiders across their networks to boost discussions when needed. As a result, these teams act as owners because they feel empowered to step up and make decisions. They know that their work directly contributes to the moonshot vision.
Research reinforces the importance of having managers and employees who lead with vision. In a joint survey by MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte Consulting, when leaders ranked the most important skills needed to succeed in the digital age, the top two choices were “transformative vision” and “forward‐looking.”1 Similarly, the authors of the Harvard Business Review Leader's Handbook place collaborative vision at the pinnacle of their model.2 Speaking primarily with CEOs, the authors identify six fundamental skills for success, two of which relate directly to vision: one skill to shape a vision that is exciting and challenging for a team (or division/unit/organization) and another skill to translate that vision into a clear strategy about what actions to do or not to do.
Tech company Google directly discovered the importance of vision during a series of management experiments in the early ...
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