Quotes About Collaboration

Dating co-stars is natural. When you're working with someone, it's habit.

I think it's a bad habit for an actor to change scripts because that's not your job. You're not a writer, necessarily - although there are some actors that are good at it.

A team is constructed with time and automatismos, habits, mechanisms.

So Chuck and I looked at that and we hacked on em for a while, and eventually we ripped the stuff out of em and put some of it into what was then called en, which was really ed with some em features.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

Great actors are so easy to direct. It's like they're big 747s that you just have to move left and right, and I don't really need to direct. I need to put them in the right costume, with the right haircut, in the right location, and with the right actor to act with. And then my job is almost done, with a great script, obviously.

I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.

If you dream big and you make it halfway and can find someone else that know the rest of the way you can still get there.

I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.

Richie and Eddie couldn't exist without each other. They're two halves of the same person.

At West Ham there were a couple of French players and they helped me get used to the team and the club.

A core group of the world's leading economies need to come together and hammer out an understanding.

As writers, our craft makes us sit alone at a desk and hammer away at our novel. Doing that day in and day out makes it really easy to forget that there's a whole community of writers out there, and they love contributing to other writers' success!

Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.

you are better off not using a general partnership in the first place.

Achieving great accomplishments doesn't matter much if everyone who helps you get there dies along the way." Paul White

Fifth, agree to seek a resolution.

Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. —Ecclesiastes 4:9

Good times don't always last. Great organizations can lose their momentum. Life and work are difficult for all of us. But we can choose our attitude. And we can seek common cause with those of like spirit who see positive potential in persons and in our fragile workplaces.

When we get involved in projects with others, we're bound to find friends that turn into family. — Jenni Davenport —

What would be workable for you?" is a good place to begin. Now we are focusing on resolution rather than differences. Two adults looking for a solution are likely to find one. Father, this question—What would be workable for you?—is eye opening. How often I waste time trying to convince my spouse that my way is right. Please help me instead to join with him or her in looking for a solution that works for both of us. Thank you for making us both unique.

include others in our plans. — Mark Littleton —

What's needed are radically new organizational models that downplay formal structure. In a world of relentless change, trade-offs need to be made as close to the front lines as possible. Boundaries must be malleable. Resources, rather than being hoarded, must flow unhindered toward promising opportunities. Interunit coordination must be the product of nimble, self-organizing communities and market-like transactions rather than blanket policies or cumbersome councils.

indebted to Eric von Hippel of MIT, who has inspired my work since we met in the early 1980s and who generously provided detailed comments and suggestions on several chapters.