Tag: The Collaborative Habit

About those “Right People on the Bus” – Thoughts on Talent, the Dallas Mavericks, and the Triumph of the “Lesser Names”

As a choreographer, my task is to make the best possible work with the dancers I find in the room on any given day. Twyla Tharp, The Collaborative Habit:  Life Lessons for Working Together ———— It’s a broken record.  Everybody knows it.  If you have the wrong people in your organization, on your team, you… Read More About those “Right People on the Bus” – Thoughts on Talent, the Dallas Mavericks, and the Triumph of the “Lesser Names”

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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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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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The Stupidity of Crowds ( a reflection)

Edwards: Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it. Kay: A person is smart. People are dumb. (Will Smith & Tommy Lee Jones — Men in Black) ————————— I’m a  big fan of James Suroweicki’s The Wisdom of Crowds.  I really like Wikinomics:  How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott, and… Read More The Stupidity of Crowds ( a reflection)

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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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A Quote for the Day – from Twyla Tharp

I’m a big fan of Twyla Tharp — choreographer, Kennedy Center honoree, best-selling author.  I’m reading her new book The Collaborative Habit.  Here’s a quote worth pondering: People are people.  And people are problems.  But — and this is a very big but — people who are practiced in collaboration will do better than those… Read More A Quote for the Day – from Twyla Tharp

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7 Habits – 2 Habits – Automatic Habits – I’m Thinking about Habits

Last week, Karl Krayer and I spoke at a book synopsis gathering at the La Cima Club.  The moderator asked us at each table to reflect on the best “self-help” books we have ever read.  Karl chose Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Just to remind you, here are Covey’s seven habits (from the… Read More 7 Habits – 2 Habits – Automatic Habits – I’m Thinking about Habits

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The Collaborative Habit — new from the brilliant Twyla Tharp

In the first decade of the First Friday Book Synopsis, my favorite book — the best book I read — was The Creative Habit by Twala Tharp.  Tharp is the award winning, Kennedy Center Honoree, choreographer. I realize that “best” is very subjective, and many would put other books at the top of their lists. … Read More The Collaborative Habit — new from the brilliant Twyla Tharp

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