Have you supported a crowdfunded project yet? I’m happy to say I have! You’ll want to get involved, too, if you enjoy bringing ideas to life … in a collaborative way. I went through Kickstarter, although there are many crowdfunding sites. What is Kickstarter? It’s an on-line platform for bringing creators and backers together to make a creative project happen through crowdfunding. Those involved create…
Collaboration Tables 3: A Chemotherapy Room Table
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…
Collaboration and what we can learn from slime mould
Guest blogger Max Hardy looks at what slime mould teaches us about collaboration: that our identity is not lost when collaborating and that collaboration helps solve complex problems. A big thanks to Max for sharing his thoughts here. I’ve been reading a terrific book titled Collaborative Leadership: Building relationships, handling conflict and sharing control by David Archer and Alex Cameron. Drawing on the…
Law 1. All writing in organizations is collaborative
It’s tempting to think of writing as a something one does alone. All writing is, to some extent, collaborative. Many book forewords tell the story of how people helped the author: editors, mentors, peers, wives or husbands, friends, kids—even the cat. The content still belongs to the author whose name appears on the cover. As Ray Bradbury…