We welcome any suggestions about topics you'd like to see covered. Collaboration is a notoriously time-consuming process and is not suitable for problems that require a quick and decisive action 2. Power inequalities among the parties can derail the process 3. The norms of consensus and joint decision-making sometimes require that the common good take precedence over the interests of a few 4. Collaboration works best in small groups and often breaks down in groups that are too large 5.
Collaboration is meaningless without the power to implement final decisions.
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