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What gets in the way of collaboration?

What gets in the way of collaboration?

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What gets in the way of collaboration?

- Have you experienced turbulence when you were flying? I don't mean the please fasten your seat belts, we are experiencing some mild turbulence from the captain. I mean the roller coaster drops and dips and tilts that come from heavy turbulence. The kind that makes you a little woozy. I was flying coast to coast with a coworker. We were planning on collaborating on a project once we hit cruising level, but somewhere over Chicago we hit a storm. With our seatbelts fastened, tray tables stowed and the flight attendants in their jump seats. The plane dropped altitude shook and creaked. Passengers shrieked, babies cried and I heard at least three people pray out loud. We had hit heavy turbulence. So much for our collaboration. The work project would have to wait. It's difficult to collaborate in turbulence. The same thing applies to work on the ground. We can hit turbulence that makes working together effectively almost…

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