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11Apr/26

Beyond Chaos and Control: Imposed vs Shared Order

April 11, 2026collaboration, control, designcraig.milner

When people first hear my critique of top-down organizations, the response is often immediate and predictable: “If you remove hierarchy, won’t everything fall apart?” It is a fair question, but it reveals

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07Apr/26

Time Doesn’t Create Collaboration. Design Does.

April 7, 2026collaboration, design, reflectionscraig.milner

“We were lucky.” That’s how one participant described their team experience at the end of a leadership program I helped facilitate at the Banff Centre. After just five days, their team had

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16Jun/15

Co-Leadership – an evolving trend?

June 16, 2015collaboration, reflectionscraig.milner

So yesterday I received a ‘special message to the University community’ from Dr. Mike Mahon, President and Vice-Chancellor at the University of Lethbridge.  In it he explains how he will be “increasingly

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  • Beyond Chaos and Control: Imposed vs Shared Order
  • Time Doesn’t Create Collaboration. Design Does.
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