Building a collaborative workplace

Anecdote has released a free whitepaper on Building a collaborative workplace: “Today we all need to be collaboration superstars. The trouble is, collaboration is a skill and set of practices we are rarely taught. It’s something we learn on the job in a hit-or-miss fashion. Some people are naturals at it, but most of us are clueless.”
It’s a good paper that will help get people thinking about the importance of thinking and working in collaborative modes. My only mild critique: the paper discusses three types of collaboration: team, community, network. This goes back a bit to Anderson and Dron’s discussion of Collectives, Networks, and Groups (.pdf) or Stephen’s discussion of groups vs. networks. I’m inclined to say that all forms of interaction are network based. Groups, collectives, teams, communities, etc. The underpinning structure is a network. As such, groups/collectives/teams are all certain types of networks. The key challenge is one of determining what type of network we require in a particular situation. How much autonomy is required? How are individual voices captured/projected/aggregated? Who has control and power?