Collaboration stops when power sharing stops.
Collaboration ends when treating everyone at the table with respect ends.
Collaboration goes bye-bye when we have personal agendas that circumvent the goals of the team.
Collaboration is an illusive dream when we merely see it as an exercise to give the boss input on the decision they need to make.
Collaboration is myth when we have to operate within a culture of hierarchical leadership styles.
Collaboration is speech to be forgotten when we know the person with the greatest authority thinks they have more value than us.
Which means:
Collaboration is the act of each of us being at our human best.
Collaboration is the result of you being the leader we need.
