This reminds me of this morning's run where Jim was telling me about how TV developed, and like all things in engineering, there was incremental change, and shared or stolen IP.
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"In a world where value is not just placed on things but also on ideas, collaboration has become the most important skill."
Our education has let us down by training us to be individuals rather than working in teams. Just think about all those exams...
Did you ever get to collaborate? No, that's cheating. But in reality, we don't work as individuals. The authors think we've been trained for a "market-share economy" that values things and power enacted through hierarchy.
Another model exists. The "mind-share economy" which is based on ideas and relationships. When two people interact, they can generate new ideas. This is the creative side to humanity. I recognise this in my runs with Jim. Listening to him makes me think of different ideas.
I also see elements of mind-share in research, going to conferences, etc.
Mind-share and market-share economies need to be balanced. You need collaborative intelligence to balance them well.
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“Market-share mentality is trying to answer who is right and who is wrong, whereas mind-share asks for what is possible.”
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The authors think there are three types of attention. Focused attention, sorting attention (shifting between the external and internal) and open attention (which produces new insights and thoughts).
Maybe open attention is a bit like day dreaming?
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We process information different ways. Kinesthetic, visual and auditory methods are used.
Knowing which way you process and handle different types of attention helps you accomplish tasks.
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Experiment to find different ways of helping yourself to comprehend &communicate. Once you master this, you can work on how your conversation partner processes the information.
Start by asking people what forms of communication are most effective to them.
I think he was referring to this 2014 study by Oppezzo and Schwartz. "Give your ideas some legs" psycnet.apa.org/record/2014-14…
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The authors talk about thinking talents in this section. They lost me when they said there are 35 different ones. They then start talking about "deficit-oriented culture". This resonates. We should play to our strengths.
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The authors here quote Ned Hermann's idea in the Creative Brain that we have 4 quadrants of thinking.
Analytical and procedural (left brain) and relational and innovative (right brain). Each thinking talent is linked to a cognitive style.
Again the authors reiterate that knowing your own strengths, and knowing the strengths of the people you're working with will help you to collaborate better together.
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"Asking questions and accepting uncertainty will let you find inspiration and seek help from others."
Amen.
"intelligence is not something people are born with, but something we develop." #GrowthMindset
"the best questions are not easily answered, and we shouldn’t expect ourselves to find simple solutions. However, we’re trained in school to come up with answers and even have competitions over answering the fastest."
Isn't this so true?
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The authors write about success-based inquiry in this blink. It's about asking how we overcame similar problems in the past.
They also write about intentional inquiry to clarify priorities and goals, and influential questions to explore different perspectives with your team. It's not clear to me what those influential questions are.
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It seems pretty self-obvious to me, but you can focus the team's attention by setting common goals.
In a meeting, identify everyone's skills by recounding past contributions &what they're good at. Then give them a chance to share what keeps them focused.
Ask them to bring a photo that sums up their intentions of participating, and hang them on a wall. This will help remind them all of the common goal in a visual way.
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"Each person has a unique style of thinking, questioning and approaching challenges... Exploring the diversity of your group will greatly improve its ability to communicate and collaborate."
Take aways - mind-share v market-share models; Hermann's quadrant model of thinking; auditory, kinesthetic and visual thinking; focused, sorting and open attention.
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Political Tribes by @amychua in 2018. She's the author of the Tiger Mum book, and my interest was piqued when I heard her on @GadSaad's podcast yesterday.
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The story of WeWork is that of a "glorified real estate company" that was selling itself as a tech company/startup. It all came crashing down in 2019.
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It all starts back in 2006 when Adam Neumann met an architect called Miguel McKelvey. Neumann needed a space for a baby clothes business. They ended up in the same building and they started collaborating on a business of renting ready-to-use office space.
I've backtracked to the start of the chapter because it's been so long. Schon is highlighting the tension between discipline and practice-orientations to education. He menions Veblen.
And again on the page 308. What is Veblen's ancient hierarchy of knowledge? Who was Veblen?
The authors think that productivity can be learned. I think they're probably right. Being productive is a skill, and I think most if not all skills can be learned and improved upon.
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The authors had a son with a health condition. They kept working to maintain their health insurance. They also had two more kids AND grew their business.
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This book by John Gottman of @GottmanInst will be interesting. They're trying to answer this question: "What's the secret to having a happy, healthy, and close relationship with another person?"
Let's see what they've got to say...
Gottman set up the "Love lab". Must have been an observational study. What they found was that how the couples communicated was not important, not what was said.
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Gottman developed the concept of a "bid". A Bid is an attempt to establish an emotional connection and can be verbal or non-verbal. It's a way of saying "Hey, I'd like to connect with you".
Gottman found that responses fell into three categories.