The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes. In part, this is because the acceptance of error reduces cost. When you believe your flaws will be quickly corrected by the group, you're less worried about perfecting your contribution, which leads to a more candid conversation. We can only get it right when we talk about what we got wrong.

~ Jonah Lehrer

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Innovation needs preparation, collaboration and the light of the soul. Every challenge provides that light - a greater depth of understanding about life and truth.

~ Amit Ray

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Debate is an attempt to cling to the illusion of control provided by a point of view designed to keep the ego in place, dialogue is an attempt to dance with the unknown at the risk of losing what we think we know.

~ Oli Anderson

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Genuine collaboration is an environment that promotes communication, learning, maximum contribution, and innovation.

~ Jane Ripley

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Training often gives people solutions to problems already solved. Collaboration addresses challenges no one has overcome before.

~ Marcia Conner

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Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.

~ Mike Schmoker

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Leaders empower individuals by building trust and coaching competence in their job roles and networking skills.

~ Kenneth H. Blanchard

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Train leaders in behaviors that promote trust and respect. Bust existing silos and focus on what’s best for the project.

~ Eunice Parisi-Carew

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Open collaboration encourages greater accountability, which in turn fosters trust.

~ Ron Garan

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You cannot trust a person who only has new friends.

~ J.a. Perez

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I like Carson. I really like Carson. I can hand an idea to him that's still a little rough, and he can turn it over and tumble it and hand it back to me shining. And I can do the same for him.

~ Dexter Palmer

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As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did.

~ Shane Claiborne

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Synergy without strategy results to waste of energy.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

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Leadership must come from all of us -- the private, public, and civil sectors.

~ Eric Lowitt

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If you first take a minute, an hour or a month to let go of feeling annoyed, frustrated or critical of the person or situation that may be driving you crazy, you set yourself up for much greater leadership and personal success.

~ John Kuypers

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People are more likely to remember the great social interaction they had with a colleague than the great meeting they both attended.

~ Ron Garan

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Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers. Further, it is truly international in scope. Any particular advance has been preceded by the contributions of those from many lands who have set firm foundations for further developments. The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.Further, science is a collaborative effort. The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.

~ John Bardeen

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Is there anything like a collective brain?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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A clear purpose will unite you as you move forward, values will guide your behavior, and goals will focus your energy.

~ Kenneth H. Blanchard

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If we adopt the same collaborative mindset and practices that got to the moon and back, and that built the International Space Station, we can alleviate poverty—and do much more.

~ Ron Garan

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Those women who had gone out with Germans were grabbed and treated very badly, often shaved totally bald so that everyone could see who they were. Some were taken prisoners. There had been so much suffering during the war because of the betrayal of those collaborators, so many killed and hurt because of what they had done to families, that the mood for revenge against the traitors was very high. It was not right, but it was understandable.

~ Diet Eman

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Collaboration begins with mutual understanding and respect.

~ Astronaut Ron Garan

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In a research-poor context,isolated experience replaces professional knowledge as the dominant influence on how teachers teach.

~ Mike Schmoker

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There is no collective thinking.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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The rate spread of EBOLA VIRUS in West Africa, is big tragedy. It is a fatal disease in the history of the world. Intensive education (formal and informal approaches) of the citizens of African can help prevent the spread. International cooperation is urgently needed to combat the EBOLA virus.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.

~ John C. Maxwell

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A partner's different perspective is valuable, but the very fact that it is different means that it will require work, humility, time, and resources to incorporate that perspective. At times, this will require checking one's pride at the door.

~ Ron Garan

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After mutual respect and understanding are achieved, it is possible to establish real, sincere relationships, which is the foundation of a solid long-term collaboration.

~ Ron Garan

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Collaboration is the essence of life. The wind, bees and flowers work together, to spread the pollen.

~ Amit Ray

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Collaboration requires focusing on everything from vision and values to how individuals can feel they are making a real contribution.

~ Jane Ripley

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Everyone I have spoken with about working with the Russians in space exploration believes that the United States has learned a great deal from Russia and that Russia has learned a great deal from the United States – and that the entire international space partnership is much better because of it.

~ Ron Garan

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A vision without a practical plan to develop it, is only that… “a vision.

~ J.a. Perez

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With commitment and vision, it is possible to build a bridge between potential partners and communities whose work is of relevance to peace-building initiatives.

~ Widad Akreyi

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Enlightenment is living in the light of cosmic collaboration.

~ Amit Ray

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There are 2 types of artist:those who create for others in mindthose who create for themselveseither way, none are truly independent.

~ Natasha Tsakos

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At the U of U, we were inventing a new language. One of us would contribute a verb, another a noun, then a third person would figure out ways to string the elements together to actually say something.

~ Ed Catmull

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A person that only looks to benefit from other people, usually ends up alone.

~ J.a. Perez

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Christmas is about community, collaboration, celebration. Done right, Christmas can be an antidote to the Me First mentality that has rebranded capitalism as neo-liberalism. The shopping mall isn't our true home, nor is it a public space, though, as libraries, parks, playgrounds, museums and sports facilities disappear, for many the fake friendliness of the mall is the only public space left, apart from the streets

~ Jeanette Winterson

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For when ideas flutter in haze, we collaborate without notice and collect them as butterflies only to set them free into the world.

~ Shawn Lukas

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My group has to do the Eighth Amendment, which is the one about cruel and unusual punishment. I'm not sure why group work isn't counted in that amendment.

~ Kirstin Cronn-Mills

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