Yup, duplication breeds resilience. Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 1, 2012, at 7:25 PM, John Saddington <[email protected]> wrote: I'm with alex on this as there's very little that can be done. enterprising (and profiteering) will occur as a natural course of people's ambition - all we can hope for is that collaboration will continue to grow and innovation will be borne out of institution. On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Alex Hillman <[email protected]>wrote: > Duplication is going to happen regardless, it's unavoidable. > > The alternative is constant stalemate due to disagreements. That's why > there's no "one" entity that makes sense. > > So long as people are still communicating and sharing, plenty will be > captured and accomplished! > > -Alex > > -- > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > On Monday, October 1, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Alec Grant wrote: > > All, > > I'm all in favour of there being multiple groups or associations to help > drive the coworking movement. But what I'm afraid of is the unnecessary > duplication of effort that might occur because of this. If multiple groups > are all doing exactly the same thing then it will take longer for us all to > get closer to whatever the end goal is. There will clearly be localised or > regional issues and these would clearly make sense to be dealt with a > specific group. But for common issues I think we should probably try to > deal with them together. > > Regards, > Alec > > On 2 October 2012 01:14, John Saddington <[email protected]> wrote: > > steve, > > thanks for this. great post! very interesting findings about corps > allowing their employees to work at coworking spots. > > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Steve King <[email protected]>wrote: > > I was at the Global Workspace Association Annual Conference two weeks ago > in Baltimore. It was quite good. I wrote a blog post on what I felt were > the key learnings. It's at: > http://www.smallbizlabs.com/2012/09/learnings-from-the-global-workspace-association-conference.html > > > The coworking world was represented with Nextspace, Workbar and a few > others attending. > > I was very impressed with the group and the level of interaction. A lot > of smart folks were in the room. And a lot of the business centers are > doing interesting things. > > Steve > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > > > > > > > -- > John Saddington > http://john.do > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > > > > > > > -- > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > > > > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > > > -- John Saddington http://john.do -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com
