Fraser, now that the hyphen ribbing has died down I'd like to point you to a couple of references that I think are apposite and important.
One is a book by Warren Bennis & Patricia Ward Biederman from 1997 called Organizing Genius, The Secrets of Creative Collaboration - which explores what makes great innovative and collaborative groups tick. Also the work of Ralph D Stacey at University of Hertfordshire on complexity and creativity and the role of conversation in innovation and change within organisations (also the importance of mess!) Both big influences on me and the way I work. Cheers Lloyd On 25 February 2010 01:05, 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. > > -- Lloyd Davis Social Artist & Master Community Builder Perfect Path Consulting Ltd http://www.perfectpath.co.uk/ http://tinyurl.com/2zejjs to subscribe to my blog by e-mail http://feeds.feedburner.com/PerfectPath to subscribe to my blog by RSS Call me: +44 (0)79191 82825 Skype me: perfectpath Follow me on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/LloydDavis -- 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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
