Replicating Generative Collaboration

Gone are the days when a hero entrepreneur can establish an overnight success based on that individual’s singular excellence. Today the key characteristic of exceptional entrepreneurship is collaboration. Increasing complexity in the business world makes it difficult for the single person to muster all the resources needed for a successful business innovation. Many business schools recognize the increasing significance of collaboration in entrepreneurship. University courses on entrepreneurship invariably encourage future entrepreneurs to collaborate in group projects.

All collaborations are not equal. Certain collaboration is much more effective than others. Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) scientist Robert Dilts demonstrates a distinctive quality of collaboration that he finds to be a critical success factor in highly successful business innovations. Through the modeling of this collaboration he hopes to increase the presence of this quality in business innovations.

In the last decade Robert Dilts modeled highly successful start-ups in Silicon Valley. In one instance he modeled a start-up that began with an individual leaving is job with an idea. One year later this start-up was sold for .75 billion dollars. The complexity of creating this much value in this short time frame could only be achieved through an enhanced collaboration.