Common Qualities of Collaborating Partners
- Autonomous – Each of us strives to be an autonomous individual or entity. While no one is truly autonomous, we are of a type that uses whatever space is available to make our own judgments and choices to meet the needs of the project.
- Proactive – As autonomous individuals/ entities, we accept responsibility for acting collaboratively with others in the interests of the project. We initiate synergies between and within networks. We are able to cope, fix our own problems, plan, and act. We push the limits, are self-driven, ambitious and committed to action with steady attention and pursuit of an ideal.
- Empathetic – We place focus on the role of our empathetic capacities to intuit and create.
- Intuitive and creative – Because networks are a practice in discontinuity, we place great emphasis on non-linear, entrepreneurial, intuitive, and creative intellectual capacities and approaches.
- Transforming – We tend to utilize transformational approaches - creating new situations and processes, focusing on the project as a whole, creating a new vision, and inspiring others to follow.
- Politically skilled – We believe that we must sell our ideas, get people in on the collaboration, and get things done.
- Networking – We believe that networking is a purposeful process driven by an overarching vision of the whole and an understanding of its parts.
- Mature – We are self-evaluative, multi-skilled, and flexible, with mature independence.
