Individuals work in teams to create value. This is the Collaboration Equation.Professionals act with confidence.The Problem: By their very design, the organizations we work for destroy confidence. They run on systems and processes that starve professionals of information, direction, psychological safety, and purpose, causing even the most talented individuals to question themselves and their decisions. They drift and become alienated, inevitably turning to structures that force competent and thoughtful people to wait for direction which never comes.Whether virtually or in real life, we isolate workers in cubicles, teams into silos, and decisions into oblivion. This way of working...is not working. The Solution: The Collaboration Equation draws from a lifetime of building collaborative systems, helping individuals be professionals, teams take pride in their work, and companies be resilient. This dynamic guide to working together shares insightful case studies, practical coaching, and helps readers build a real culture, design real processes, and to create real collaborative systems that people enjoy working in. You will be able to build visual systems where people can see their work. You will be able to create cultures with a "Right Environment" so they can mind their system. And you will create an organization where your individuals truly work in teams to create value.Your professionals, your company, and you will act with confidence. Without fail, every well-run endeavor has involved collaboration. Every real collaboration creates and maintains its own clarity. Every real collaboration has psychological safety. Every real collaboration has fearlessly shared leadership. Every real collaboration has the guts to work for real success.Individuals in teams create value.Every successful team I have ever seen operated as a team. Every successful team I have ever seen had individual professionals behaving professionally. Every successful team I have ever seen knew what success looked like. They made their quest for success visual, they talked about it regularly, their opinions were respected, and their actions were appreciated.Practical collaborative work creates its own rewards, its own psychological safety, its own agency, and its own quality control. Intentional collabo