Crossing boundaries stories

The stories that people tell me demonstrate engagement across boundaries: preparing, using the environment, sharing, learning, and hindrances.

Preparing

• Knowing where the political undercurrents are to avoid,
  
• Getting introduced to people so they're ready for you,
  
• Assessing people
  
• Listening to people

Environment

• Finding advantages in what is in the environment, and sometimes the problems

Sharing crossing and across the boundaries

• Sharing knowledge and time, sharing abilities and skills - may involve for example piggybacking on others interviews to save an interviewee time
  
• Aligning plans is other sharing - let's use the same map as we cross - it's no good one party aiming for downstream whilst the other is aiming upstream
  
• Adapting to each other's approaches

Learning

• Gaining new understanding of each others world.
• Recognising missed opportunities.
  

Hindrances

• Lack of expertise
• Challenges
• Time wasting
• Disputed ownership