Tables, like the Round Table of King Arthur or the Algonquin Group, promote discussion. But tables can support intense day-to-day collaborative work, too. Each week in chemotherapy rooms in hospitals around the world, patients receive their prescribed cancer drugs. There are 10 comfy chairs in the chemotherapy room where I received treatment earlier this year. They surround a long table used…
Great Collaboration Tables 2 – The Algonquin Round Table
In the second of a series about legendary meeting tables, we’re looking at the Algonquin Round Table, which brought together some America’s wittiest and most perceptive minds of early 20th century. Collaboration happens at tables. This group’s table meetings amplified the creative output of all members. Their insights and collaborative genius spread to other ventures in writing, art, movies, plays, and politics—American culture—even after…
Great Collaboration Tables 1 – King Arthur and his Knights
Collaboration happens at tables, usually in meeting rooms. Legendary meeting tables continue to inspire our work together. In this series, let’s look at one that comes to us through the mists of time: the Round Table of King Arthur and his Knights. According to legend, King Arthur drew the sword Excalibur from the stone—a feat that made him ruler of…