Collaboration: From groan zone to growth zone
The hothouse environment of a collaborative circle can make the ideas and achievements of the participants develop faster than if the participants were all pursuing the identical goals without sharing.
Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
Converge Network
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Generative Collaboration: Partnerships for 21st Century Challenges
Royce Holladayhsdglobalservices.org
read about them in Systems Archetypes: Diagnosing Systemic Issues and Designing High-Leverage Interventions by Daniel H. Kim (1993, Cambridge, Mass.: Pegasus Communications). Or see The Fifth Discipline, pp. 378-90; issues of The Systems Thinker;
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
Gridlock results when individual actors continue to behave as if they were independent of everyone else— each pulling in a different direction,