Comments on: Collaborate or Die http://www.adjoy.com/2009/06/23/collaborate-or-die/ The Cause Media Platform™ Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:21:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sterling Lynch http://www.adjoy.com/2009/06/23/collaborate-or-die/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Sterling Lynch Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:17:34 +0000 http://blog.adjoy.tv/?p=17#comment-7 Your main point is bang-on: collaboration is essential. I also want to emphasize another theme in the post: collaboration with outsiders is essential. A person, company, community, or industry will thrive only if it embraces innovation and innovation more often than not comes from an outsider. If a person or company is only willing to collaborate with the same familiar faces, the end result is inevitable. If a person or company is not looking beyond its own ranks for the next big thing, it is already dead. Your main point is bang-on: collaboration is essential.

I also want to emphasize another theme in the post: collaboration with outsiders is essential.

A person, company, community, or industry will thrive only if it embraces innovation and innovation more often than not comes from an outsider. If a person or company is only willing to collaborate with the same familiar faces, the end result is inevitable. If a person or company is not looking beyond its own ranks for the next big thing, it is already dead.

]]> By: Kelly Goodwin http://www.adjoy.com/2009/06/23/collaborate-or-die/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Kelly Goodwin Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:58:51 +0000 http://blog.adjoy.tv/?p=17#comment-4 'Every man for himself' is hardly ever an effective social battle cry. The concept of 'it takes a village..' on the other hand is a proven winner. Although not the head of a major(or minor!) corporation I feel it neccssary to point out the flip side of this responsibility. As consumers it behooves us to do our homework. All well and good to place it all on the umbiquous head of some faceless organization, but where is your own contribution. If faced with two products, how do decide? Packaging? Careful there. What about the policies of the company? Do the profits in total go to vacations in Tibet? OR do partial proceeds go to found an infirmary in Tibet? Collabarate or die is indeed the answer, as long as all are aware of their parts. ‘Every man for himself’ is hardly ever an effective social battle cry. The concept of ‘it takes a village..’ on the other hand is a proven winner. Although not the head of a major(or minor!) corporation I feel it neccssary to point out the flip side of this responsibility. As consumers it behooves us to do our homework. All well and good to place it all on the umbiquous head of some faceless organization, but where is your own contribution. If faced with two products, how do decide? Packaging? Careful there. What about the policies of the company? Do the profits in total go to vacations in Tibet? OR do partial proceeds go to found an infirmary in Tibet? Collabarate or die is indeed the answer, as long as all are aware of their parts.

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