The Obstacles to Working Together
“Most of life is an interdependent, not an independent, reality. Most results you want depend on cooperation between you and others.” -Stephen Covey
The various obstacles which keep us from working together include (at various times or in changing circumstances):
- Lack of... trust - respect
- Lack of... voiced community expectation - awareness
- Lack of... perceived need for each other
- Lack of... urgency - (complacency)
- Lack of... models - examples
- Lack of... habit - tradition
- Lack of... structures and processes that bring us together regularly with that goal
- Lack of... skills - leadership capacity for bringing folks together for effective action
- Lack of... common focus - to make the changes so that we ARE working together
and last but not least: the PRESENCE of FEAR: that “we” will lose territory if we try to work with “them” (“they” will try to take over what “we” are doing)
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