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"Collaboration is overrated. At least the word is. What people want is “community,” engagement and…"

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Collaboration is overrated. At least the word is.

What people want is “community,” engagement and highly effective opportunities to work with highly effective people who can get things done. And if those highly effective people are kind of cool and kind of smart they will become your “work friends.”

Then they will become your Facebook friends and you will have Thanksgiving Dinner with them because it’s way more fun and much less stressful than hanging with your own family. And you will be happier at work, and therefore stay longer and then that big nameless, faceless, well-branded corporate entity that signs your paycheck will continue to prosper and thrive, making bazillions of dollars, and then it can hire a phenomenal design firm to build a “campus” for its happy workers, who will stay longer and work more but won’t mind as much because they have a dry cleaner, fitness center and their best friends all within 10 feet of their desk. See how this works?

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Who, Where, How We Work: The Intersection of Culture, Workplace, and Social Media

http://bit.ly/H9x4gi 

Definitely worth a read.

(via wanderingwanderingstar)

"22. Nobody cares. Do it for your­self. Every­body is too busy with their own lives to give a damn…"

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“22. Nobody cares. Do it for your­self. Every­body is too busy with their own lives to give a damn about your book, pain­ting, screen­play etc, espe­cially if you haven’t sold it yet. And the ones that aren’t, you don’t want in your life any­way.”

– 30 insights from Hugh MacLeod on how to be creative. (via curiositycounts)

"The underlying assumption of brainstorming is that if people are scared of saying the wrong thing,…"

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“The underlying assumption of brainstorming is that if people are scared of saying the wrong thing, they’ll end up saying nothing at all. The appeal of this idea is obvious: it’s always nice to be saturated in positive feedback. Typically, participants leave a brainstorming session proud of their contribution. The whiteboard has been filled with free associations. Brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity. But there is a problem with brainstorming. It doesn’t work.”

– Jonah Lehrer rounds up decades worth of evidence debunking the myth of brainstorming. Lehrer’s new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works, comes out next month and is a must-read. (via curiositycounts)