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food for thought: on Collaboration
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- “The best companies are the best collaborators. In the
flat world, more and more business will be done through collaboration
within and between companies, for a very simple reason. The next
layers of value creation – whether in technology, marketing,
biomedicine, or manufacturing – are becoming so complex
that no single firm or department is going to be able to master
them alone.” - Thomas Friedman
- “What a collaboration does for you is, by spreading the
risk a little bit, it encourages you to take more chances.”
– Howard Gruber
- “Many ideas grow better when transplanted into a mind
other than the one where they sprang up.” – Oliver
Wendell Holmes
- “People will support that which they help to create.”
– Mary Kay Ash
- “I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.”
– Woodrow Wilson
- “Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.”
– Will Rogers
- Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is
the hard part.” – Casey Stengel
- “You don’t have to like what your players do. But
you have to love them.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Surround yourself with people who are going to lift you
higher.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in
me.” – Henry Ford
- “Albrecht’s law: Intelligent people, when assembled
into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.”
– Karl Albrecht
- “The things we fear most in organizations- fluctuations,
disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity.”
– Margaret J. Wheatley
- “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how
to deal with them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” –
John Steinbeck
- “Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."
– Gandhi
- “Only when one is connected to one’s core is one
connected to others.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- “The first great gift we can bestow on another is a good
example.” – Chinese proverb
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