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Archive for August, 2008

In cooperation, partners split the work, solve sub-tasks individually and then assemble the
partial results into the final output. In collaboration, partners do the work ‘together.’
Dillenbourg

In the Industry-Commerce age, Individual Performance had to be developed in order to develop Collective performance. Collective Performance resulted from Individual performance (individual performances added together to determine collective performance). Managers thus had to make individual performance the priority.
In the Creation-Communication age, Collective Performance has to be developed in order to develop Individual Performance. Individual […]

The Plight of the Guru

“A guru is a master thinker. But by force of thinking alone, what a guru often masters is the art of goofing up!” Olivier Zara

Talk is Cheap

“You can’t talk your way out of something you behaved your way into. You have to behave your way out of it.”
Doug Conant, CEO of Campbell Soup