Cooperation and Collaboration – Lessons I Learned from a Friend

I had lunch today with a very good friend of mine. We have been together at the same organization for about the past seven or eight years and even though our fields of expertise are different, we have worked together on a number of proposals earlier in our careers. I was meeting with her today to present her with a copy of the book and we had a great discussion about grant writing and working on projects.

The most interesting part of our conversation was her recounting to me a situation that h...