{"id":3619,"date":"2026-08-18T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/?p=3619"},"modified":"2026-07-22T16:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:51:20","slug":"dish-soap-and-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/dish-soap-and-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Dish Soap and Collaboration?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sinner&#8217;s Circle (1959) is a chemistry concept showing that cleaners (such as dish soap) work much better when four interdependent factors maintain a balance. And by adjusting any one of the components in this closed loop system, you can compensate for a deficit in another. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Natalie Nixon (CEO of Figure 8 Thinking) has applied this concept to collaboration. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91536392\/what-dish-soap-can-teach-you-about-collaboration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>this article<\/strong><\/a>, she discusses the key collaborative components of asking generative questions, pursuing high-stakes outcomes, navigating the friction of give-and-take, and exercising patience and persistence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BTW, regarding the latter, she reminds us that a leader who calls collaboration a failure &#8220;after one difficult meeting&#8221; is like a cook who pulls the pan from the fire before the heat has had a chance to work. A collaborative team takes work and it doesn&#8217;t happen overnight. But the eventual results are well worth the effort!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinner&#8217;s Circle (1959) is a chemistry concept showing that cleaners (such as dish soap) work much better when four interdependent factors maintain a balance. And by adjusting any one of the components in this closed loop system, you can compensate for a deficit in another. Natalie Nixon (CEO of Figure 8 Thinking) has applied this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[194,745,744,746],"class_list":["post-3619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-collaboration","tag-dish-soap","tag-natalie-nixon","tag-sinners-circle","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3622,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions\/3622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}