Ed Pilkington: Connection is the secret sauce for effective working

As a graduate I was told that in business no-one does anything alone. Collaboration is essential in all we do. For many of us our role is to bring together complementary skills to deliver brilliant work. We need to get people to collaborate. Yet collaboration is a word that can be overused. Collaboration isn’t just a cross-functional workshop – it is much deeper than that.
At the heart of collaboration has to be connection. We spend a lot of our time talking about how best to connect