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The document discusses the benefits of collaboration over competition in business. It argues that collaboration fosters unity and connection between employees, allowing them to work together effectively to achieve organizational goals. In contrast, competition creates silos where employees focus only on their own agendas rather than feeling connected to the larger organization. The Drum Cafe promotes collaboration through drumming circles that tap into a shared rhythm and sense of community to facilitate clear communication and productive teamwork.
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- 1. COLLABORATION VS. COMPETITION The Rhythm Behind Smart Business Property of Drum Café © 2010 1
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- 3. It’s 2010, and posi@vity is driving us into this new decade. As individuals, we’ve all laid out personal goals that hopefully compliment the goals of our organiza@ons. But as leaders, we can’t assume that good inten@ons will yield good business results. That’s why we create structures and eco‐ systems that help success along. Some say a liKle compe@@on is always good. We’re not here to debate that. But life is filled with choices. At Drum Café, we choose to espouse the over‐arching ethic of collabora@on as opposed to compe@@on. When it comes to crea@ng a healthy, produc@ve business, we have no ques@on about which has more efficacy. Collabora@on speaks to a deeper quest many of us have for a more meaningful, connected professional life. Property of Drum Café © 2010 3
- 4. In tradi@onal tribal culture, when an important decision was imminent, all members were summoned together to join a drumming circle. Different than convening in a boardroom, these circles created a profound synchronicity between everyone. How? By tapping into the pulse of their community, establishing the core connec@on, and using that powerful base as the star@ng point for clear communica@on. Drum Café has witnessed @me aVer @me the emergence of this unity between thousands of employees sharing a single beat. More importantly, we’ve created complicated rhythms through the sheer will and focus of minds and bodies united in the spirit of collabora@on. Property of Drum Café © 2010 4
- 5. We understand the ins@nct to energize people through some kind of mechanism that will mo6vate them. Fear and compe@@on are @red constructs that we haven’t seen work in the long‐term. They create silos where individuals follow dimly lit paths guided by their own agendas. They don’t feel the pulse of the organiza@on because they’ve disconnected from it in order to survive. The rhythm behind smart business starts by tapping the poten@al of each person. At Drum Café, we do this by recognizing the unique tone of the individual, and then introducing that tone into the collec@ve beat. Property of Drum Café © 2010 5
- 6. Experience is worth a thousand Power Point presenta@ons. Transla6on: If you are transi@oning from a compe@@ve environment into a more collabora@ve one, no amount of language can replace the real proof that life and business will be beKer as a result of this change. So short of jumping through a @me machine, how can you manifest the power of collabora@on over compe@@on? Property of Drum Café © 2010 6
- 7. We are each a resource for each other’s learning. The purest spirit of collabora@on comes from the simplest source – our human ins@nct. 6 inches from our mother’s heartbeat taught us so much during our earliest days of life. We don’t have to live as far from that rhythm as we some6mes do. Drum Café has created a forum in which we tangibly experience the inextricable link between collabora@on and the collec@ve power and wisdom of organiza@ons. Our methodologies transcend language, culture, gender. They awaken the core strengths that grow strong communi@es and successful businesses. They have been with us all along, and it only takes a village – or a smart business ‐ to reveal their power. Property of Drum Café © 2010 7
- 8. We look forward to drumming with you. Please email us or call us. bookings@drumcafe.com; 1 888 874 3786 Thank you! Property of Drum Café © 2010 8