We kick it off talking about our earliest memories of collaborating, before jumping right in and answering the big question: Do we like collaborating with others? Find out our best experiences working with others…and the worst!
It’s hard not to talk about collaboration and not talk about work. How much do our jobs rely on collaborating with others? How do you work with that person who refuses to work well with others? Should employers even encourage collaboration; if so, how can they best get people to work together well? Does any one person (or group of people) have the upper hand when collaborating?
Find out if we prefer leading groups of simply being part of groups when we have to collaborate on a project. Can people collaborate and still have their own voice be heard? And, finally: what’s the best collaborative effort seen in history?
Feel free to collaborate by sharing your thoughts about collaborating in the comments.
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Growing up, I collaborated on neighborhood skits, and extra credit skits for school. Not much collaboration from me in high school, I was a bookworm loner. After college, I was in a play production of “Night of January 16th” (I’m not a Randian). I think I had the most fun of anybody involved. We made it an audience-interactive play. For several years, I participated in a poetry-art collaboration appropriately name the “Minnetrista Festival of Poetry and Art.” Since then, I’ve had plans to collaborate with fellow artists and writers on making art and writing books, but the other person always seems to lose interest and / or not have time. Ah, well.
That’s kinda how it goes once you get out of school, innit? It’s just so much harder to get everybody into a room together. I’m fortunate that Christopher and I live *relatively* close to each other and both of us can make our schedules work.