There's a lot of talk these days about how workplaces could be more human, how we need to collaborate more, how we need to learn together. Strong relationships are the foundation upon which we can achieve these things.

Soft skills are anything but.  

The importance of self-awareness: being the person you want to be also involves knowing the person that you are.

All the Slack, Yammer, Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp will not make us more collaborative if we are still being jerks to each other.  Collaboration is less about the technological tools we use and more about the users of the tools.

Sociometry aims to bring about greater spontaneity (willingness to act) and creativity within groups of people.  Greater spontaneity and creativity brings about greater group task effectiveness and satisfaction amongst its members.  Sociometry teaches us that the quality of an outcome is directly related to the quality of relationship between the people trying to generate that outcome.  

"We are all fundamentally unseparated from each other, from all beings and from the universe."