Quotes About Collaboration

Unlike the practice of conventional technology innovators, value innovation is based on a win-win game among buyers, companies, and society.

Engagement means involving individuals in the strategic decisions that affect them by asking for their input and allowing them to refute the merits of one another's ideas and assumptions.

Encouraging refutation sharpens everyone's thinking and builds better collective wisdom

to win in the future, companies must stop competing with each other. The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition.

By fair process we mean engaging all the affected people in the process

people in the front line care as much about the proper process as those at the top.

There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

NED: Why can't you just say yes? BEN: Because we have a committee. NED: But you're the senior partner and I'm your brother. BEN: I fail to see what bearing that has on the matter. You're asking me to ask my partners to give up income that would ordinarily come into their pocket.

If Jesus put Simon the Zealot (an insurrectionist who hated the Roman occupiers) on the same team as Matthew the tax collector (a collaborator with the Romans) and then made them room together, I'm not sure why we can't have some strong differences on the hot-button issues of our day and still march together under the banner of unity.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

When you're not playing up to your capability, you gotta try everything, to motivate, to get them going. All of them have to be on the same end of the rope to pull together. It's playing for the name on the front of the shirt, not the back. Individualism gets you trophies and plaques. Play for the front, that wins championships. I try to remind them of that.

Two heads are better than a nun

When a group of people sing together, we make up a chorus. When birds do, it's more like a whole symphony orchestra.

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

It takes two," he said after a moment. "That's why they call it coupling.

I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.

Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.

become deeply engaged in their team's project, and

you have a dedicated assistant, or one you share with one or two other people, great. Find one who isn't just able to handle administrative tasks, but excels at the problem-solving part of the job and sees it as his mission to advance you.

if you want to get the most out of your 168 hours, you need a work team and a home team, all focused on their core competencies, so you can focus on yours.

There's a simple formula in Anner's organizations for getting the most out of work time: no one goes to a meeting who does not need to be there. Every meeting has an agenda, with a clearly defined, short time frame next to each item.

Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.