Quotes About Collaboration

Assign someone who isn't actively participating in the discussion to be the scribe, responsible for taking accurate notes. Session notes should contain an attendee list, invitees who did not attend, decisions made, actions to be taken and who is responsible for each, outstanding issues, and the high points of key discussions.

We make ourselves into the net that we throw across the ocean

I'd rater share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop

I`d rather share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop." - Kate Jackson

Homo sapiens, it turns out, is the most cooperative species on the planet, outperforming ants, hyenas, and even the naked mole-rat when it comes to living alongside those who are beyond our next of kin.

hoard too—but the striking fact is that we share at all.22 Homo sapiens, it turns out, is the most cooperative species on the planet, outperforming ants, hyenas, and even the naked mole-rat when it comes to living alongside those who are beyond our next of kin.

First, the digital revolution has given rise to the network era of near zero-marginal-cost collaboration, as we saw in the dynamic rise of the collaborative commons in Chapter 2. It is essentially unleashing a revolution in distributed capital ownership. Anyone with an Internet connection can entertain, inform, learn and teach worldwide.

Later, you can shoot your boss an e-mail and comment positively on the new strategy or ideas she suggested and say you are eager to implement them. She'll appreciate

Most people don't have the time to meet in person so ask for a ten-minute phone conversation. Be specific. Tell them you're looking and would appreciate any help they can give. Could they introduce you to a key person in their own organization?

No part of marriage is the exclusive province of any one sex.

"Independence"... [is] middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

First, all deals that close are win-win deals. The two sides would not agree to a proposal unless they thought agreement was better for them than no deal.

A negotiation is an interactive communication process that may take place whenever we want something from someone else or another person wants something from us.

I still say to myself when I am depressed, and find myself forced to listen to pompous and tiresome people, 'Well, I have done one thing you could never have done, and that is to have collaborated with both Littlewood and Ramanujan on something like equal terms.

Common aim is stronger than blood.

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

He loved the intimacy of being in a tight group of people who had come together, miraculously, for a brief period in time, for the purpose of making art.

There's no game without the NPCs. There's just some bullshit hero, wandering around with no one to talk to and nothing to do.

I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill in. If the other's lung spontaneoulsy collapses, the one can fill in. It's a perfect system once you think about it." ~Will Landsman

A good marriage is, at least, one part conspiracy.

He wanted to ask her to work with him at a special place—the occasion of their prospective creative union should be memorable. Even then, he felt that if they made a game, and if the game became what he knew it could be, he would want there to be a story about the day Sam Masur and Sadie Green had decided to work together. He was already imagining Sam-and-Sadie lore, and he didn't even have a definitive idea for a game yet.

Dov was a producer on Ichigo, and he was so well known that she worried that people would think her work was his work. That they wouldn't know where her work began and his work ended.

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, by David Kushner;

Playing Dungeons & Dragons in a group of two people is a peculiar, intimate experience