I have experienced and basically completely agree with Florida, on this concept of "spikier=successful" locations of work, where the team proximity is directly related to success.
I have some disagreement with Dave's notes that "cultural" issues cause lack of success, as if this was the case, almost every job I have worked on would have been a complete disaster. For example, I now work in an office, day in day out, directly with Indians, Canadians, Chinese, Russians, Israelis, Arabs, Americans - (which are barely the cultural majority), French, South Africans, South Americans, and a smattering of other nationals. If homogeneous culture was the determinant factor for success, we would be totally lost. I have found, (almost always), that proximity overcomes many obstacles. We just had a design issue/session, which had multiple POV's, 6 proposed solutions and an optimal outcome, all in the period of 20 mins. If the team was dispersed, I don't believe we could have even framed the problem in a way all stakeholders understood all nuances, in an entire morning. I would also say that working in a "spiky" city, NYC, brings like minds together and this mindset of people who desire to live in these "spiky places, along with proximity, overcomes many obstacles. Rich On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:59:44, David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My #1 conclusion > so far has been cultural differences around communication styles. > > > > -- > Joseph Rich Rogan > President UX/UI Inc. > http://www.jrrogan.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
