The challenges we face don’t care for the lines we’ve drawn between ourselves.

As communities, cities, counties, and regions, we’re facing challenges that we can’t afford not to address.

Pandemics, crime, homelessness, healthcare outcomes, polarization, housing affordability, and natural disasters. The list goes on.

In the words of Greg Boyle, founder of the largest gang intervention in the world, “We belong to one another. No exceptions.”

But collaboration - even between two teams in a local government department or between a non-profit board and its’ exec leadership team - can often feel deeply fraught, perhaps even impossible.

Yes, there are factors outside our control - legislation, regulation, industry - that contribute, but that’s never the whole story.

Within our locus of control sit endless large and small ‘design choices’ that can change the game.

That can bring us into an experience of cooperation we didn’t know was possible.

They’re hidden in plain sight and going to waste.

This will not do. And it doesn’t have to be this way.