Hey Alex, I'm a blasphemer, I've broken the first cardinal rule of coworking ;-)
I definitely feel that lack of conventional hierarchical management structure, that often is the detriment to collaboration, is something that's great about coworking. When these barriers are removed, people are freer to take initiative, direct their own purpose and interact with each other on a creative level. I think this is when the stories will come into play. In fact, the usefulness of stories and storytelling is something I'm also very interested in. I remember reading that successful storytelling will be key to designing the new ways we live and work. Interestingly, storytelling is a very right-brain centric skill used more by creative, design and artistic people, rather than analytical left-brained people. We should all keep an eye on the ideas coming out of coworking... Fraser think you already know my thoughts, in that coworking creates > opportunities to lower barriers and grease the wheels in the exact ways you > described, but I also encourage others to share some specific stories about > how you did just that. What things do you do to lower barriers, remove > excuses, and make sure that great things can happen (and that shitty things > don't have to happen again)? On Feb 24, 8:24 pm, Alex Hillman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Fraser, > > We try not hyphenate co-working. > > http://doescoworkinghaveahyphen.com/ > > Sorry everyone, he's just started at IndyHall! > > <http://doescoworkinghaveahyphen.com/>;) just teasing man. > > I think you already know my thoughts, in that coworking creates > opportunities to lower barriers and grease the wheels in the exact ways you > described, but I also encourage others to share some specific stories about > how you did just that. What things do you do to lower barriers, remove > excuses, and make sure that great things can happen (and that shitty things > don't have to happen again)? > > -Alex > > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Fraser <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi folks > > > I'm working at Indy Hall and researching into what makes co-working > > great for collaboration. I have an idea that I'd like to share with > > the group. > > > We humans have 3 innate drivers that direct the way we live and work. > > These are: To find a mate, earn fair compensation for work, and to > > exercise creative initiative. When it comes to collaboration, the > > motivation for creative initiative is often stunted by confusion over > > roles, direction, and/or authority. Yep, we've all heard or said "I > > hate working in groups" and "I'd be better off working by myself". > > > Recently I read Dan Pink's new novel Drive. He suggests that the > > conventional sticks and carrots (punishment and reward) method of > > motivation is useless at promoting this creative initiative. Instead, > > he suggests that autonomy, mastery, and purpose are what influences > > creative initiative. This got me thinking. > > > As I've been speaking to the people at Indy Hall, I've begun to think > > that these alternative motivational factors are what makes > > collaboration here so successful. Here, you have a group of people > > demonstrating autonomy all the time. They control their own purpose > > and working environment. As a result, they avoid issues over roles, > > direction and authority. Also, they are nearly always doing things > > they love, learning to get better at them (mastery) or teaching others > > (purpose). > > > Therefore, I wonder if co-working is great for collaboration because > > it promotes into creative initiative by allowing innate human needs of > > autonomy, mastery and purpose. I actually mentioned this to someone > > today and they said, "yeah, it's like autonomy on steroids here".... > > > So, I put this idea out there to the people in this group. Many of you > > have more experience in co-working than me. What's your thoughts on > > this idea? Why co-working is great for collaboration? > > > I look forward to some discussions. > > > cheers > > > Fraser > > > ----------------------------------------- > > > Fraser A Marshall PhD > > > MID Program student > > The University of the Arts > > 320 South Broad Street > > Philadelphia, PA 19102 > > > T: 267 243 1524 > > E: [email protected] > > E: [email protected] > >http://significantdesign.wordpress.com/ > >http://www.humanticdesign.com/ > >http://twitter.com/fraseram > > > ----------------------------------------- > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Coworking" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<coworking%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. 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