THE IMPORTANCE OF COLLABORATION
This weeks readings deiscussed how crucial collabroation is to success. Working in teams has a formula, challenges and rules. Here are some dot points from these readings.
Keith Sawyer, 2007, Group Genius: The creative power of collaboration, New York: Basic Books, 2007, pp.39-57.
- Teams can only by improvising and collaborating, changing constantly in response to the adjustments their opponents are making
To foster improvised innovation, the conditions of group flow must be created.
- The groups goal
- Close listening
- Complete concentration
- Being in control
- Blending egos
- Equal participation
- Familiarity “you gotta know how to play with them”
- Communication
- Moving it forward
- The potential for failure
1949 Your Show of Shows – whats the difference between group genius and groupthink?
Jean Tabaka, 2006, ‘What are collaborative teams?’ Collaboration explained: Facilitation skills for software project leaders, Upper Saddle River, NJ : Addison-Wesley, pp.23-43.
- A team is more than just a working group. A team is a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves accountable
- What defines a high performing team is trust, sharing, self-organisation and mutual accountability
- The characteristics of team maturity phases: forming, storming, norming, performing
- How teams falter: remove a member, add a member, change the teams goal/purpose
Adam Hyde, Mike Linksvayer et al, 2012, ‘What is Collaboration Anyway?’ in The Social Media Reader, Ed. Michael Mandiberg, NYU Press
- Information technology informs and structures the language of networked collaboration. Terms like “sharing”, “openness”, “user-generated content” and “participation” have become so ubiquitous that too often they tend to be conflated and misused
- Collaboration is employed so widely to describe the methodology of production behind information goods that is occludes as mush as it reveals
