Collaboration

... collaboration is better than competition, and this is far away from a romantic view of collaboration. Because empirically, you can see that when you collaborate with the other, you have more points. And the other insight that is interesting is what is called a zero-sum game fallacy. The idea of the fallacy i...more

...es of games when you talk about game theory, right. So there are other games that are non-zero-sum games. And in those cases, the best strategy is to collaborate. There is a really popular game called the Prisoner's Dilemma. And in those types of games, you have to collaborate to have a better performance. So...more

...se cases, the best strategy is to collaborate. There is a really popular game called the Prisoner's Dilemma. And in those types of games, you have to collaborate to have a better performance. So the idea, and so the fallacy is, that most of the time - when you don't know this kind of new situation in real lif...more

...ting philosophy in economics, because it is interesting to think about the economy and if it is a zero-sum game or not. And if we have to compete, or collaborate. And if we collaborate, are we going to have a better performance or not? But the idea is to see what happens in a company. If a company is a zero-su...more

...omics, because it is interesting to think about the economy and if it is a zero-sum game or not. And if we have to compete, or collaborate. And if we collaborate, are we going to have a better performance or not? But the idea is to see what happens in a company. If a company is a zero-sum game or not, and...wh...more

...ve a better performance or not? But the idea is to see what happens in a company. If a company is a zero-sum game or not, and...whether to compete or collaborate. So...our premise is that a company is a non-zero-sum game. Collaboration is better for having a better performance in all aspects. So we created th...more

...company. If a company is a zero-sum game or not, and...whether to compete or collaborate. So...our premise is that a company is a non-zero-sum game. Collaboration is better for having a better performance in all aspects. So we created this company with this idea - with the idea of collaboration. Because...we th...more

...n-zero-sum game. Collaboration is better for having a better performance in all aspects. So we created this company with this idea - with the idea of collaboration. Because...we think it's the best way to do things, and it's the proper way to do things. It is a better way of having a better performance in these ...more

... smaller piece of pie, right. So this is like an analogy for these kinds of things. You can compete for happiness - a small slice of pie - or you can collaborate to get a bigger pie and have a smaller amount, but in comparison with the other one it is bigger. So this is what we think in terms of also the prof...more

...el proud of three practices that summarise all the culture and how we see the management of the company. The first one is that we make decisions in a collaborative way. And we use concerns - like in Sociocracy. The idea is that when you propose something, you look for objections, and an objection is someone that...more

...r what people can take with them? Jorge Silva: Yeah, I was thinking about that. Well, one thing is, I think that this kind of crisis is forcing us to collaborate. And I think that this is an interesting idea. Because right now you depend on others, you really depend on others to stay healthy and to stay safe. ...more

...hy and to stay safe. And this is interesting, because you have to trust, you have to trust that others don’t go out and stay at home. And you have to collaborate with others to do your groceries, or you have to share your new discoveries on the vaccine. And I think that this is a really good example of how co...more

...te with others to do your groceries, or you have to share your new discoveries on the vaccine. And I think that this is a really good example of how collaboration works better than competing. Because in order to make the world go back to normality, we need everyone to collaborate. And if we don't go that way, i...more

... a really good example of how collaboration works better than competing. Because in order to make the world go back to normality, we need everyone to collaborate. And if we don't go that way, it is really hard to get rid of this virus. So I think one of the learning points here is that collaboration really is ...more

... everyone to collaborate. And if we don't go that way, it is really hard to get rid of this virus. So I think one of the learning points here is that collaboration really is a game where you perform better. And the other thing is, sometimes when we talk about these kinds of ideas, and these kinds of crazy polic...more

...ansform their habits in order to exercise power with, because otherwise, you will be caught in this very odd, painful contradiction of where you want collaboration, and you want things to go your way, both at the same time, which is not possible. So the main change internally is to be open to hearing different n...more

...you know is true does carry risks. So ultimately, on an individual basis, changing it from below is the highest skill level necessary – to be able to collaborate with someone who isn't in a collaborative mindset, and also has power in relation to you. That is the biggest deal, that is where nonviolence really ...more

...timately, on an individual basis, changing it from below is the highest skill level necessary – to be able to collaborate with someone who isn't in a collaborative mindset, and also has power in relation to you. That is the biggest deal, that is where nonviolence really gets tested. So they're internal changes. ...more

... process is such a wonderful tool, because it moves you in the direction, regardless of which side you started from. It moves you in the direction of collaboration of openness to multiplicity of perspectives, before anything becomes a decision....more

... choices that you make. We learn through knowing what impact we have on others. So those are the five systems. And those systems can be set up, to be collaborative, to be supportive of 'power with', to be supportive of collaborative decision making, to be supportive of empowerment, to be supportive of support fo...more

...on others. So those are the five systems. And those systems can be set up, to be collaborative, to be supportive of 'power with', to be supportive of collaborative decision making, to be supportive of empowerment, to be supportive of support for everyone, to be supportive of attending to issues of power and priv...more

...ms, what are the sort of human shifts that need to happen? What can I do as a human being to develop the mindset, the skills, the abilities needed to collaborate in in a more self managing way? Miki Kashtan: I'll start with telling you a story. And through that story, I will pull out a very core principle. I w...more

...It's built into our evolutionary design. Because we evolved, as far as I understand the literature, we evolved to live in small groups of people that collaborate, to share resources for the wellbeing of all, that's what we evolved for. That's not how we live now. But that capacity is still within us. It's just...more

...just rather not do self management". So I want to say, it may be daunting. And in my experience, every step of the way, yields more freedom, and more collaboration, both. So you take baby steps, and you do only what is within your capacity. Don't change everything at once in one day, just take one piece at a tim...more

...have you learned? What are some insights that you could share with listeners about collaborating with money in a non hierarchical way? Alanna Irving: Collaborating with money has become a really big theme in my work over the last few years. And that was not exactly intentional. It's something that really emerged...more

...her out. Money is a natural way to do that. So we started doing a lot of interesting experiments with money and Enspiral. What emerged was the whole collaborative funding Cobudget thing. Cobudget is a tool for making a budget together. Essentially, you put up projects and people can control different amounts of...more

...d a lot of the legal entity company structure work behind that. A I wondered how you hack things that are made for one way of looking at business and collaboration for a completely different sort of paradigm. The status quo is just really time consuming, expensive and requires talking to lawyers and asking accou...more

...it get to a point where the things that weren't working were right in my face before I actually let myself consider that that was going on. For every collaborative group who is doing highly experimental, brave stuff - it's dangerous and risky. I was just feeling like I had taken some risks, as a leader in that s...more

...s thing up and export it?' And can we copy and paste this into other cities? And what I've come to realize is I don't think you can. A truly vibrant, collaborative community is not built, it's grown. And each one grows differently, and has to be given that space - because what we're doing here is about emergence...more

... common story, or that could help us step back and look at what this thing is that we're actually in. I guess that's the project that I want to be in collaboration with all of you out there. I think that we need to be in this together to figure that out....more

... think an area we're really homing in on at the moment is - and I'll come back to the decision making piece of work - is to this point, we are a very collaborative organisation. We really hold that value very dear. And consulting and involving people in decision making has always been a very important part of wh...more

...e bigger we are in terms of number of employees, the harder we are finding it to balance that efficient, effective decision making with involving and collaborating. So I think for me, one of the things that we're really homing in on is the impact of scaling for collaborative decision making, and how do we strike...more

...ve decision making with involving and collaborating. So I think for me, one of the things that we're really homing in on is the impact of scaling for collaborative decision making, and how do we strike that balance as an organisation. Because we really want to get it right, we really want to still hold true to t...more

...ing, and how do we strike that balance as an organisation. Because we really want to get it right, we really want to still hold true to that value of collaboration, but also be fleet of foot. We're exploring new markets, new opportunities for us, and we need to know that we can also make decisions quickly. So ye...more

...your right. And that linear process is what we call collaboration, normally, but of course, it's totally inadequate for what's required now, which is collaboration between creative people who are left to their own sources because we want to have innovative sources within our field who are creative, who don't nee...more

...nnovative sources within our field who are creative, who don't need to be told precisely what to do. And that requires a completely different kind of collaboration, than people on a linear production line with job descriptions, who actually do need to be told precisely what to do it and when to do it, and so for...more

...is a paradigm shift and it needs to be, in a sense, this is what we're doing with the source work, we're in training, that we're helping this form of collaboration to emerge. And, as you say, it's a paradox because in a sense we are still enabling what one might call a hierarchy, but it's a different kind of hie...more

...een blind spots), come across a lot of people who are wanting to be a self-managing organisation, they (are) wanting to be more conscious in how they collaborate together, and I'm seeing them really suffer in things like, as Tom describes it, as 'creative entropy' - really well-intentioned people coming togeth...more

...about how they are going to work together to address challenges like the climate crisis? Well, it turns out, it's all about collaboration. It's about collaboration. It's about consensus. It's about cooperation. It's about all the things I was writing about in 2015 - when people wondered why I was writing about i...more

...about it. I have a history here. I was writing about Willful Blindness when everybody thought they were on top of the world. And I was writing about collaboration when everybody thought, no - individual competitiveness is what makes companies and countries thrive. And my most recent book, which is about the unp...more

...stuff. So in some ways, we're helping cheat the brain out of those things until it becomes a new habit because we know that these things are good for collaboration, and that we haven't really learned how to do that with each other in an effective way at scale, I think. Michael Y. Lee: Yeah I totally agree and th...more