Collaboration

Headstrong, Part II: The Creative Process

Marian Salzman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

I wrote in my last post about my life-changing experience of being diagnosed with a brain tumor and having a craniotomy three years ago to remove it. ...

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Matt Ridley: When Ideas Have Sex

TEDTalks | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

Read More: Design, Tedtalks, Technology, Business, Ted, tedglobal2010, Collaboration, Technology News

Author Matt Ridley says it's not important how clever individuals are; what really matters is how smart the collective brain is.

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The Myth of the Individual: What Successful Technologists Really Do

Caroline Simard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

Read More: Fortune-Smartest-People-in-Tech, Innovation, Technology, Talent, Collaboration, Technologists, Tech, Innovator, Fortune Magazine, Technology News

This week, Fortune published a list of the 50 smartest people in high-tech. The focus on individual accomplishments, however, doesn't do justice to what technologists have to be the best at in order to be successful.

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Private: James Patterson At His Most Medicore

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Collaboration, Murder for Hire, Serial-Murders, Game Fixing, James Patterson, Maxine Paetro, Books News

Private is not a bad read but it isn't a great one either. It falls into the land of the mediocre and for an author with the talent of James Patterson that shouldn't be enough.

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James Patterson Founds International Crime Novel Franchise

The Wall Street Journal | Alexandra Alter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Bestsellers, Authors, Detective Novels, Private London, International Franchise, Books, Writing, James Patterson, Collaboration, Crime Novels, Co-Authors, Steig Larsson, Books News

Mr. Patterson plans to partner on his new "Private" series with writers in Germany, Italy, England and Australia. Mr. Patterson has long relied on co-...

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Let the N.E.A. Lead Them

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

We in the theatre have known for a long, long time that the show must go on. I'd venture to say that there's only one man in Washington who knows this in his bones -- National Endowment for the Arts chair, Rocco Landesman.

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5 Ways to Boost Your Career

Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Read More: Risk Taking, Leadership, Promotions, Career, Workplace, Decision-Making, Collaboration, Career Advice, Careers, Risk Management, Thought Leaders, Workplace Collaboration, Risk, Business News

Ever notice how some people just seem to always get the timely promotions and the plum assignments, while others don't? People who succeed in their ...

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The Power of Networks: Effecting Greater Impact in the Social Change Movement

Ellen Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

Read More: Social Justice, Social Change, Collaboration, Nonprofits, Non-Profits, Philanthropy, Infrastructure, Strategic Philanthropy, Community Clinics, Nonprofit Sector, Health Care Reform, Networks, Impact News

At a recent conference, activists discussed how the future of social change movement rests in how we network our individual efforts with one another to create more coordinated and unified action.

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Innovation is a Roller Coaster: Google Wave and the Gartner Hype Cycle

Lars Rasmussen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

Read More: Google, Lars Rasmussen, Communication, Collaboration, Google Wave, Video, Technology News

Remember us? The Google Wave team! Today we opened up Google Wave to everyone. You no longer need an invitation to use the service.

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Why "Talk" Culture will Destroy the World

Hugh McGuire | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

Read More: Andrew Keen, Internet, Copyright, Remix, Collaboration, Nicholas Carr, Web, Michiko Kakutani, Post-Modernism, Jaron Lanier, Media, Technology, Farhad-Manjoo, Cass Sunstein, Technology News

In the New York Times, Michiko Kakutani takes on the Internet, remix culture, post-modernism and the technology-induced Decline of Western Civilizatio...

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Building a More Open Government, One Idea at a Time

William Pomerantz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Transparency, Innovation, Nasa, Participation, Open Government, Collaboration, Politics News

On February 8th, our nation's civil space agency rolled out NASA.gov/open, a website that allows space enthusiasts and concerned tax-payers everywhere to chime in on ways to improve the agency.

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Collaboration: An Endangered Competence?

Jim Selman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication, Business Organization, The Inner Life, Conflict Resolution, Healthy Living News

Everyone seems to have a strongly held point of view without much evident interest in learning or working toward some common resolution of our differences. It would seem collaboration is fast becoming extinct.

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Preventing Misunderstandings in Key Relationships: Create 'Agreements'

Mim Abbey | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Business Life, Work Life, Relationships, Conflict, Productive Relationships, Agreement, Collaboration, Heathy Relationships, Communication, Relationship Advice, Relationship Tips, Healthy Living News

The trouble is, we rarely set up these agreements verbally. We simply work together or live together, go along, and are then surprised and upset when we find that we're operating differently. KB

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The 21st Century Worker: Collaborative Tools Flatten Workplace Hierarchies

Karen Appleton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

Read More: Box.net, Collaboration, Get Satisfaction, 21st Century Worker, Business Applications, Jive, Yammer, Social Media, Twitter, Facebook, Business Communication, Social Media Networks, Communication, Technology News

Email's solitary reign is fast eroding. Competition from a range of social networking and collaboration platforms "promises to profoundly rewrite the way we communicate."

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This Week In Art: The Art of Collaboration

Bettina Korek | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles

In today's interconnected world, with virtually no barriers to entry for anyone who wants to participate in the dialogue, I believe that the best projects will come from working together.

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WH Releases Open Government Directive: Transparency (Plus) Engagement (Equals) More Democracy

Peter M. Shane | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Read More: Transparency, Omb, White House, Collaboration, Orszag, Democracy, Open Government Directive, Journalism, Participation, Media News

If transparency is truly to promote accountability, then the public needs journalists to help discover, gather, compare, contextualize, and share the new information becoming available.

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Writing With Twyla Tharp: I Collaborated With A Genius -- And Survived

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: Creativity, Twyla Tharp, Collaboration, Ballet, Richard Avedon, Dance, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Billy Joel, Books News

When you're in a room with Twyla Tharp, it's hard to notice anything else. As her dancers know, a "very nice" from Tharp is a bit more meaningful than it is from almost anyone else.

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Entrepreneurship in New York: A Personal Testimony to the City Council

Jerri Chou | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

I'm testifying at New York City Council today on tech entrepreneurship and how the city can better support this community. Here are some of my thoughts going into the hearing.

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Tips on How to Reframe the Current Economy

Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

When it is easy to make money just by buying a house and waiting, there is not much incentive to look deeper into yourself -- to find out what you were born to give, what your unique talents are.

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Co-Creating a Monster

Victoria Rosner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

Read More: Authors, Women Writers, Publishing, Frankenstein, Books, Collaboration, Entertainment News

Random House recently published a new edition of Frankenstein with a surprising change: The cover now reads "Mary Shelley (with Percy Shelley)." Why is Percy now getting marquee billing?

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The Brilliance (and Stupidity) of The Age of Stupid

Steven G. Brant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

The film is essentially the same rant against stupid behavior we've heard for years, dressed up in an elaborate, well-intended package.

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Cambodia: Collaboration is Needed

Eve Blossom | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Unemployment, Economic Crisis, Collaboration, Southeast Asia, Cambodia, Jobs, Sustainability, Business, Human Trafficking, Women's Rights, Garment Industry, Sex Workers, Garment Workers, Sex Work, International Labor Organization, World News

Many see the results of human trafficking and want to get involved; but more importantly, the focus should be on empowering the mechanisms to prevent it.

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What's Wrong with Experts?

Dennis Whittle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Read More: Globalgiving, Expertise, Experts, Workplace Collaboration, Financial Experts, Collaboration, Sustainable Business Practices, Business News

There are many areas where there is no clear right answer or no clear best practice. And it is precisely in these fields that we must be careful of a "tyranny of the experts."

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Gordon Brown: Wiring a Web for Global Good

TEDTalks | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Technology, Communication, Collaboration, Economics, Politics, Global Issues, World News

In his talk, Brown argues that we've reached a unique moment in human history: we can use today's interconnectedness to develop our shared global ethic