Overcoming Collaboration Trauma
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Earlier this week, I was on a call with a group of black founders thinking of collaborating in a major way. (More details to come) During the meeting, one of the founders said something that I’d never heard before. “ As we work together, we have to understand that many of us have “collaboration trauma” and we need to be cognizant of that as we find new ways to collaborate.”
After the meeting, I went down a rabbit hole trying to figure out if there was any information out there on collaboration trauma and I used my google-fu to find research or articles mentioning collaboration trauma. I couldn’t find anything significantly substantial.
Taking a step back, I walked through my experiences with collaboration to better understand what they meant….Some background for those who still wonder what I do for a living.
- I work at Kohactive as a product manager. I help companies build software products for internal and external usage. Yes, that is me on the first page.
- I teach at General Assembly as a part-time instructor — I teach product management twice a year.
- I invest and advise early-stage startups at the intersection of technology and impact at tiphub.vc
- I assist my father with his ventures in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and Kenya.
