Cultivating Collaboration: Don't Be So Defensive! | Jim Tamm | TEDxSantaCruz
Overcoming the greatest barrier to collaboration and our ability to solve problems by managing individual defensiveness brought on fears of vulnerability.
May 26, 2015
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18 min read
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Collaboration
Psychological Safety
Friction Reduction
Summary
Based on years of experience and research studying collaborative behavior and productivity in chickens, Jim Tamm explains that defensiveness is the single greatest inhibitor to true collaboration. Defensiveness, he explains, does not protect us from other people, but instead defends us from fears we don't want to feel - usually brought on by fears of lack of significance, competence or likability. Collaboration stops and we initiate aggressive behavior.
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