Hey everybody, welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast where we do our best to help

leaders go further faster.

On today's podcast, we'll begin a two-part conversation on creating a culture of collaboration.

Andy, as we kick off 2018 on the podcast, I really can't think of a better topic than

collaboration.

I agree.

I think this is a great topic as we kick off the new year.

The idea of collaboration or cooperation is so important because in most of our organizations

we are siloed, even though we work against that, that's just a tension that's always

going to be there for us to manage.

And it's easy for all of us to get focused on our own agenda, our own success and forget

or lose sight of the fact that collaboration and cooperation really is in some ways the

oil of the machinery that keeps the organization moving forward.

And Andy, as we've discussed many times on the podcast, creating a culture of anything

organizationally is challenging.

Absolutely.

It requires some intentionality.

If you leave a culture alone, the culture doesn't go away.

It just changes.

Every organization has a culture whether or not it's healthy, depends on how intentional

we've been.

So, yeah, to create a culture of anything organizationally, you've got to name it.

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