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Here’s How I Use Cross-Pollination at Work.
How to share and interchange ideas for high-performing teams in transforming business environments
In this article, I highlight the value and importance of cross-pollination for high-performance teams in transforming the business environment. I’d like to share a simple example that helped transform a competitive, rigid, and difficult culture into a pleasant learning environment.
What is Cross-Pollination?
Cross-pollination is a metaphor taken from botany. The literal meaning of it is the transfer of pollen from plant flowers with different DNA, which enables the creation of new types of plants carrying different attributes.
Cross-pollination is a powerful metaphor for understanding diversity's importance in creating fusion in the workplace. I introduced the fusion principles and their importance in a previous article.
The metaphor of cross-pollination refers to sharing and interchanging of ideas, thoughts, information, and tacit knowledge for the enrichment of team capabilities.
