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This is one of the paradoxes of creative collaboration. Great Groups are made up of people with rare gifts working together as equals. Yet, in virtually every one there is one person who acts as maestro, organizing the genius of the others. He or she is a pragmatic dreamer, a person with an original but attainable vision. Ironically, the leader is

Patricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

Creativity Is Inherently Collaborative

Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

"Your best performances will come when you are working in a way that is a full expression of you. The work becomes a natural display of your personality. This is when you not only get better results, but also love the activity — because in doing the craft, you feel alive."

—James Clear

Many of our most interesting and impactful projects will be multiplayer. We'll work together to create art, make games, tell compelling stories, and build new technology. Many of these initiatives will be fundamentally "headless," or lacking a singular leader. Instead, emergent groups will arise to tackle different problems and earn more responsibi... See more

Nick deWilde • 18 Trends That Will Shape Our Careers in 2022

Physician and educator Maria Montessori on leading others:

"The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." But this holds true for leadership in general—give people space and they flourish."

Source: The Montessori Method (1912)

You can't make this point better than Leslie Lamport did:

If you're thinking without writing, you only think you're thinking.

Paul Graham • Writes and Write-Nots

A question from Nick Cammarata to inspire action:

"If I had 10x the agency I have, what would I do?"

Some of the smartest practices and group-building exercises come from the theater. They are powerful group methodologies that play with a healthy balance of the individual and the group — locating techniques and moments of choice of when and how a group comes together while allowing individuals to still have a voice.

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