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Is It Tougher To Come Up With Ideas When You Work Alone? (A Few More Thoughts on Creativity & Innovation)

America seems to be suffering a decline in innovation advantage. America seems to be experiencing an increase in the number of people who work alone. Is it possible that these are connected? I have read a lot of books on innovation.  And a few on creativity.  (Bob Morris, our blogging colleague, is good at reminding… Read More Is It Tougher To Come Up With Ideas When You Work Alone? (A Few More Thoughts on Creativity & Innovation)

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Natalie Portman Reminds Us Well – There Are No Little People

Collaborators aren’t born, they’re made.  Or, to be more precise, built, one day at a time, through practice, through attention, through discipline, through passion and commitment – and, most of all, through habit…  Like creativity, collaboration is a habit – and one I encourage you to develop. Collaboration guarantees change because it makes us accommodate… Read More Natalie Portman Reminds Us Well – There Are No Little People

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As We Enter 2011: We Can Not Do It Alone, as “Auld Lang Syne” Reminds Us

Business , and life, is all about “together” rather than “alone.”  As we start 2011, here is a brief excerpt (from Sullivan’s Daily Dish) of a great, great article by Peggy Noonan on the classic “Auld Lang Syne.”  I encourage you to read all of Noonan’s article, and think about connections, collaborations, “interdependency,” in business,… Read More As We Enter 2011: We Can Not Do It Alone, as “Auld Lang Syne” Reminds Us

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“Together Effort” Really Does Trump “By Myself Effort” – Insight From Drucker, Tharp, Lennon/Mccartney, Eisner, and Anderson

Let’s talk about teamwork – or collaboration – or connections — or “together effort” instead of “by myself effort.” A lot seems to be cropping up on my own radar about this idea of “together work.” And it is true – we can do more than me.  We are smarter, more capable, more able to… Read More “Together Effort” Really Does Trump “By Myself Effort” – Insight From Drucker, Tharp, Lennon/Mccartney, Eisner, and Anderson

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If Stephen Sondheim Needed Help, You Probably Will To – Twyla Tharp On Collaboration

Something familiar, Something peculiar, Something for everyone: A comedy tonight! Something appealing, Something appalling, Something for everyone: A comedy tonight! Old situations, New complications, Nothing portentous or polite; Tragedy tomorrow, Comedy tonight! Something convulsive, Something repulsive, Something for everyone: A comedy tonight! Something aesthetic, Something frenetic, Something for everyone: A comedy tonight! (A Comedy Tonight,… Read More If Stephen Sondheim Needed Help, You Probably Will To – Twyla Tharp On Collaboration

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“We” Are Better Than “Me” – Wisdom From Twyla Tharp’s The Collaborative Habit

Collaboration is the buzzword of this new millennium.  For some of us, it’s a superior way of working; for almost all of us, it’s inevitable. I’ve just finished reading The Collaborative Habit by Twyla Tharp.  (I’m presenting a synopsis of this book at Take Your Brain to Lunch, this week in Dallas).  It is a… Read More “We” Are Better Than “Me” – Wisdom From Twyla Tharp’s The Collaborative Habit

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innovation + experimentation + collaboration can lead to a successful tomorrow – wisdom from Atul Gawande (from the current health care debate)

If there are any definites in this very indefinite and chaotic era, here is one:  change is constant, and to get to what works successfully tomorrow requires a lot of innovation and experimentation and collaboration to make it to that successful tomorrow. Recently, Atul Gawande — surgeon/professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School/international expert and… Read More innovation + experimentation + collaboration can lead to a successful tomorrow – wisdom from Atul Gawande (from the current health care debate)

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“Everybody” Knows More than “Anybody” — Netflix Awards a Prize in the Era of Wikinomics

News Item – Netflix awards $1 Million Prize for innovation from outside the company The contest was to help with the most basic of promises of Netflix:  “If you like this movie, we’ll help you find the next movie you will like – even though you had no idea you would like it.”  From the… Read More “Everybody” Knows More than “Anybody” — Netflix Awards a Prize in the Era of Wikinomics

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