Quotes About Collaboration

autonomy over four aspects of work: what people do, when they do it, how they do it, and whom they do it with. As Atlassian's experience shows, Type I behavior emerges when people have autonomy over the four T's: their task, their time, their technique, and their team.

a "grouplet"—a small, self-organized team that has almost no budget and even less authority, but that tries to change something within the company.

the more they chat and gossip—the more they get done

Wikipedia represents the most powerful new business model of the twenty-first century: open source.

The ability to move others to exchange what they have for what we have is crucial to our survival and our happiness.

when both parties view their encounters as opportunities to learn, the desire to defeat the other side struggles to find the oxygen it needs.

Each team member takes thirty seconds to report on their progress.

Tuckman believed that all teams proceeded through four stages: forming, storming, norming, and performing.

Autonomy, as they see it, is different from independence. It's not the rugged, go-it-alone, rely-on-nobody individualism of the American cowboy. It means acting with choice—which means we can be both autonomous and happily interdependent with others.

not looking at the student or the patient as a pawn on a chessboard but as a full participant in the game.

Autonomy, as they see it, is different from independence. It's not the rugged, go-it-alone, rely-on-nobody individualism of the American cowboy. It means acting with choice—which means we can be both autonomous and happily interdependent with others. And while the idea of independence has national and political reverberations, autonomy appears to be a human concept rather than a western one.

Identifying problems as a way to move others takes two

ultimately, open source depends on intrinsic motivation with the same ferocity that older business models rely on extrinsic motivation

Meantime, British organizations such as the London Business School and the Yorkshire Water Company have established artist-in-residence programs.

Ample research has shown that people working in self-organized teams are more satisfied than those working in inherited teams.

Odhiambo frowned. It seemed as if an opportunity for cooperation had just passed them by. Unfortunately, it was a chance that wouldn't come again.

Org charts represent reporting hierarchies very well, but they don't show how coworkers interact with one another; and although they show business relationships, they do not show personal relationships.

Many parents these days, however, are learning that discipline will be much more respectful—and, yes, effective—if they initiate a collaborative, reciprocal, bidirectional dialogue, rather than delivering a monologue.

While group collaboration can certainly be a source of collective intelligence, it can also get you to jump off a cliff or drive too fast. And that's probably why some form of continued connection to the adults and their adult perspectives still exists in traditional cultures, and even in our animal cousins. Without adults around, young adolescents can literally go wild.

Para llevar una vida equilibrada, valiosa y creativa, llena de relaciones personales bien conectadas, es crucial que nuestros dos hemisferios actúen conjuntamente.

Ser padres conscientes. Un mejor conocimiento de nosotros mismos contribuye a un desarrollo integral de nuestros hijos, escrito en colaboración con Mary Hartzell.

One implication of the limbic area is that it is an interface between the more impulsive and "primitive" brainstem and the higher, often more rational cortex. Integration in the brain would therefore honor the differences in these regions and promote their linkage* through collaboration, not internal warfare. An interpersonal neurobiology* approach enables the activity stemming from these regions to be known and then linked with other areas.

I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.

The research side of academic life is often viewed from the outside as a solo and, at times, lonely activity. In fact, it is quite the opposite: a communal activity in significant part where interaction and interchange generate ideas and critiques of them.