Cooperative sounds good, right?
Life has been humming along; work has stabilized after a period of seismic activity; for all I knew we were doing things right. I could have happily gone on with my life, leading a culture of cooperation within my team, had I not scrolled past this interesting table by John Spencer:
I love this because as I read the left side, it mirrored my thought process of thinking “yea! Cooperation is sweet.” Immediately when I got to the first line of the Collaborative column, I was thinking “Ahh, but this is better!” Without saying anything negative, he shows us that you can run an organization either way, that you need both, but there is a distinction.