Collaboration Quotes - Page 16

• This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.

  Chath Piersath

  Firsts, Mary, Going To Work

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The work is different in the sense that I haven't had to travel round the world raising money, or work from the genesis of the project. But the collaboration feels clear always, it's sort of my drug, I'm in it for the conversation. The conversation's the most important part of it.

  Tilda Swinton

  Drug, Important, Different

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I don't remember saying nothing about me crossing over. I did R&B collaborations but I never tried to do no pop stuff.

  Big Daddy Kane

  Stuff, Saying Nothing, Remember

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• This is a collaboration between a complex analyst, a dynamical system expert, and an arithmetical algebraic geometer. It sounds like a joke, a complex analyst, a dynamical system expert, and an arithmetical algebraic geometer walk into a bar.

  Jordan Ellenberg

  Science, Sound, Experts

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• I would have to say Björk is my dream collaboration. She's just such a character and has such a spirit that is unlike any other artist out there. She's literally on a whole 'nother planet. She's consistently changing and evolving and doing these different wild things with her songs. I think I could learn a lot from a person like that.

  Kelcey Ayer

  Dream, Song, Character

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• Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

  Warren Christopher

  Environmental, Borders, Degradation

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• Together we can prevent genocide from happening again. Together we can make a better future for our children.

  Dith Pran

  Teamwork, Children, Future

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• Together we have given the world the possibility of one day living on a truly mine-free planet.

  Jody Williams

  Teamwork, One Day, Together

  Jody Williams, Eve Ensler (2013). “My Name is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize”, p.245, Univ of California Press

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• The move from scarcity thinking to abundance thinking, from zero-sum competition to one-hundred-sum collaboration, is not just a “nice” or “moral” idea. In the twenty-first century, it's plain good sense. Scarcity says, “I'm going to keep all my ideas to myself and sell more than anyone else.” Abundance says, “By mentoring, coaching, and sharing all our best ideas, we're going to create a powerful tide that raises all our ships-and we'll all sell more as a result".

  Daniel Burrus

  Zero, Powerful, Nice

  "Want to Save the Manufacturing Sector? It's Time to Embrace the Principles of Next Generation Manufacturing" by Daniel Burrus, bigthink.com.

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• Collaborations work when both or however many parties are the right people to be working together for whatever reason - whether it's two musicians or a musician and a filmmaker or a musician and a choreographer, if the combination is right, the possibility exists to make something greater than the individuals could make. But if the combination is wrong than you generally end up with a compromised piece is probably less than the individuals could make.

  John Parish

  Party, Two, People

  "PJ Harvey and John Parish". Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 27, 2009.

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• Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Inspirational, Work, Creativity

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• Who is giving the orders to ants? No one. They are self-organizing. Each of our immune systems get smarter over the years as its biochemical parts share information, and it responds with individualized defenses, but it isn't conscious and it has no memory. The host of that party didn't decree that everyone would gather in the kitchen, but it happened anyway. Emergence means we sometimes act in concert for better or worse.

  Steven Johnson

  Memories, Party, Mean

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• Another roof, another proof.

  Paul Erdos

  Proof, Roof

  "A Tribute to Paul Erdos". Book edited by Alan Baker, Bela Bollobas and Andras Hajnal, December 13, 1990.

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• If we define 'thought collective' as a community of persons mutually exchanging ideas or maintaining intellectual interaction, we will find by implication that it also provides the special 'carrier' for the historical development of any field of thought, as well as for the given stock of knowledge and level of culture. This we have designated thought style.

  Ludwik Fleck

  Ideas, Community, Historical

  Ludwik Fleck (2012). “Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact”, p.39, University of Chicago Press

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• The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely compulsive force upon his thinking and with which it is not possible to be at variance.

  Ludwik Fleck

  Thinking, Style, Individual

  Ludwik Fleck (2012). “Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact”, p.41, University of Chicago Press

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• It's not that the (social media) tools themselves inspire trust and collaboration. We use them as a medium to connect, and thus generate trust and enthusiasm.

  Nancy White

  Media, Inspire, Enthusiasm

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• Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity and transparency and openness to others becomes essential to the new way of conducting business, empathic sensibility has room to breathe and thrive. It is no longer so constrained by hierarchies, boundaries of exclusion, and a concept of human nature that places acquisitiveness, self-interest, and utility at the center of the human experience."

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Self, Competition, Hierarchy

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• Hackman's paradox: Groups have natural advantages: they have more resources than individuals; greater diversity of resources; more flexibility in deploying the resources; many opportunities for collective learning; and, the potential for synergy. Yet studies show that their actual performance often is subpar relative to "nominal" groups (i.e. individuals given the same task but their results are pooled.) The two most common reasons: groups are assigned work that is better done by individuals or are structured in ways that cap their full potential.

  J. Richard Hackman

  Opportunity, Often Is, Two

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• Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom-up.

  Matt Ridley

  Order, Innovation, Bottom

  "Dare To Be 100: Worse Or Better World? The Flynn Effect" by Walter M. Bortz II, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 4, 2016.

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• In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people 'manage' everyone else. The new environment requires a shift in the organization of both institutions and societies, one of flexible teams of teams that come together around whatever change opportunities exist and then reform around the next.

  Bill Drayton

  Team, Opportunity, Organization

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• Hot groups have members who are task-obsessed and full of passion. They share a style which is "intense, sharply focused, and full bore. Members feel engaged in an important, even vital and personally ennobling mission; their task dominates all other considerations; and although such intense teams tend to remain intact only for a relatively short period of time, that time is remembered nostalgically and in considerable detail by its members.

  Jean Lipman-Blumen

  Team, Passion, Style

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• For productive collaboration adopt five principles: involve the relevant stakeholders, build consensus phase by phase, design a process map, designate a process facilitator and harness the power of group memory.

  David Friedrich Strauss

  Memories, Design, Maps

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• Groups become more extreme and entrenched in their beliefs and polarized from others when members only exchange information that reinforces their views and filter out all else or never learn of alternatives. Thus they narrow their options, and magnify each other's prejudices and misconceptions. This trend leads to blind spots in decision making and to extreme behavior, even terrorism.

  Cass Sunstein

  Blind Spots, Views, Decision

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• Diverse groups of problem solvers outperformed the groups of the best individuals at solving complex problems. The reason: the diverse groups got stuck less often than the smart individuals, who tended to think similarly.

  Scott E. Page

  Smart, Thinking, Groups

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• From American Idol to The Matrix participatory media - where old and new media converge by involving fans - is influencing our culture by creating new forms of interactive storytelling. Yet by enabling people to participate in such various media they can converge as a crowd to alter the story to create new modes of engagement, some not necessarily endorsed by the creator - or the brands that back them.

  Henry Jenkins

  Media, Idols, Creating

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