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The Collapse of Expertise and Rise of Collaborative Sensemaking | gonna.grow.wings. If organizations are going to thrive in turbulent times, they must surrender many of their most cherished assumptions and start leveraging the power of collaborative knowledge. But this won’t be easy as most continue to believe in the same top-down knowledge management strategies common to the machine age. In the social era, the power of collaboration is key and collaborative knowledge generation–or sensemaking–is essential for staying competitive amidst the messy, complex challenges that define our hyper-connected universe. But there’s a glitch: paying workers to collaboratively solve problems and cultivate ideas flies right in the face of traditional management thinking and its belief that the only valid source of knowledge is authoritative expertise.

So, clearly, a new understanding about knowledge and the role of expertise is needed. Traditional Management: In Authoritative Knowledge We Trust Integrating Expertise With Sensemaking A Deeper Awareness of Social Like this: Like Loading... Cooperation vs Collaboration - cloudhead. We often use these words interchangeably, but they represent fundamentally different ways of contributing to a group and each comes with its own dynamics and power structures that shape groups in different ways … When collaborating, people work together (co-labor) on a single shared goal.

Like an orchestra which follows a script everyone has agreed upon and each musician plays their part not for its own sake but to help make something bigger. When cooperating, people perform together (co-operate) while working on selfish yet common goals. The logic here is “If you help me I’ll help you” and it allows for the spontaneous kind of participation that fuels peer-to-peer systems and distributed networks.

If an orchestra is the sound of collaboration, then a drum circle is the sound of cooperation. For centuries collaboration has powered most of our society’s institutions. But today, cooperation is fuelling most of the disruptive innovations of our time. Collectives collaborate. So … Halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/19/02/40/PDF/Dillenbourg-Pierre-1999.pdf. Americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/48_2-etf-towards-better-group-work-seeing-the-difference-between-cooperation-and-collaboration.pdf. Www-ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/Breakthrough/book/pdfs/axelrod.pdf.

Workshop on Mass Collaboration - Day One. Introduction to the Workshop - Ulrike Cress Why a workshop in mass collaboration? Recent mass phenomena: Wikipedia, tagging, blogging, Scratch, massive open online courses and connectivism, citizen science, maker-space Who is creating these? Nature article on massively collaborative mathematics (see the wiki PolyMath). How do we describe these phenomena? In science we need new methods for this. Can we design mass collaboration?

CSCL 2013, we brought together people to talk about this. A Brief History of Mass CollaborationAllan Collins, Northwestern UniversityHomo sapiens traded with others many miles away, while Neandrathals did not. The next major development is the development of cities. Marshall's theory of hot spots: these areas exist for three reasons:- pooled resources - workers and firms are drawn to these places- specialized products and services - for example, hairdressers and agents in Hollywood- 'ideas in the air' - information and skills flow easily between people 1. 2. 3.

Let's Stop Confusing Cooperation and Teamwork with Collaboration. Often the words collaboration, coordination, and cooperation are used to describe effective teamwork. But they are not the same, and when we use these words interchangeably, we dilute their meaning and diminish the potential for creating powerful, collaborative workplaces.

Collaboration has been a big word in the news lately, most recently due to Marissa Mayer’s explanation of her decision to bring Yahoo employees back to the office: “To become the absolute best place to work, communication and collaboration will be important, so we need to be working side-by-side.” Mayer’s belief that we work together better when we have real relationships, and that it is easier to build relationships when you have face-to-face contact is not unfounded. Coordination and cooperation is essential for effective and efficient work accomplishment, and some research supports the notion that some face-to-face time makes a big difference. Definitions. All three of these are important.

Collaborative consumption. Why Coworking Is on the Rise. Work is no longer a place. Telecommuting, freelancing and online work have been growing for years, and the lines between our professional and personal lives are increasingly blurry. We make dinner reservations from the office, and take our conference calls from the dinner table. As work becomes less routine and more results-focused, people are coming back together to foster collaboration based around results. A movement is taking shape--the rise of coworking. According to a recent report by DeskWanted, there were 2,498 coworking spaces as of February 2013, up from 703 spaces in February 2011. How many commercial real estate models have seen 3.5x growth over the last two years?

Coworking is a logical extension of the collaborative consumption model into the commercial real estate market. If you are a 15-person startup in Portland and need to find 3,000 square feet of office space, good luck. The Coworking Evolution As coworking grows, a hierarchy of models is starting to emerge. 12 Principles of Collaboration. The many aspects of collaboration. How Culture Drove Human Evolution | Conversation | Edge.

The two systems begin interacting over time, and the most important selection pressures over the course of human evolution are the things that culture creates—like tools. Compared to chimpanzees, we have high levels of manual dexterity. We're good at throwing objects. We can thread a needle. There are aspects of our brain that seem to be consistent with that as being an innate ability, but tools and artifacts (the kinds of things that one finds useful to throw or finds useful to manipulate) are themselves products of cultural evolution. Another example here is fire and cooking. Another area that we've worked on is social status. This is the kind of status you get from being particularly knowledgeable or skilled in an area, and the reason it's a kind of status is because once animals, humans in this case, can learn from each other, they can possess resources.

One possibility, and the typical assumption, is that the ape was more like a chimpanzee or a bonobo. Api.ning.com/files/-xhPZ98Kq7nNoZM*YSmEAwuR*WCnm5LmHfENZ*IHui1Hvt26oxaLldIZ9Z4a3GtHcX2cC7oBqiUx8QUaU*X5YRI*NiGwHszo/TheultimatesocialnetworkScientificAmericanjun2012.pdf. Evolution and Our Inner Conflict. The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. Are human beings intrinsically good but corruptible by the forces of evil, or the reverse, innately sinful yet redeemable by the forces of good? Are we built to pledge our lives to a group, even to the risk of death, or the opposite, built to place ourselves and our families above all else?

Scientific evidence, a good part of it accumulated during the past 20 years, suggests that we are all of these things simultaneously. Each of us is inherently complicated. We are all genetic chimeras, at once saints and sinners — not because humanity has failed to reach some foreordained religious or ideological ideal — but because of the way our species originated across millions of years of biological evolution. Kin selection alone doesn’t adequately explain our complex natures. Don’t get me wrong. Leif Parsons The eternal conflict is not God’s test of humanity. Edward O. We must avoid a new wrong turn of cooperativism: the strategic danger of collaborative ‘consumption’ Natalia Fernandez of Lasindias.net argues: By severing cooperativism from its communal origins and and focusing on consumption, British cooperativism and the ICA caused lasting damage to the transformative capacity of cooperativism, which we should not repeat today in the debate between the economy of the commons and collaborative consumption.

She explains why (please note the original article has many links): “The emerging forms of capital (the commons) and consumption of the P2P mode of production …open two different worlds. One of the narratives that has done the most damage to the mutualist tradition is making the starting point for the History of Cooperativism the birth of modern consumer cooperativism, the famous “Rochdale Pioneers” of 1844. This overlooks pre-existing and very widespread communally-based social organizations which, at that time, had already been around (in some cases) for fifty years, and had become agrarian and worker cooperatives. Will we make the same mistakes? Www.designingcollaboration.com/Essi_Salonen_DesigningCollaboration.pdf. Cooperative Learning Ideas From Nobel Prize Winner Carl Wieman. Live Blog: Richard Sennett, "The Architecture of Cooperation" | Blogs. Hi Archinect! I'm a bit under the weather today, but this is one not to miss. Richard Sennett, the GSD's Senior Loeb Fellow for 2012 (and faculty member at New York University and the London School of Economics) is talking about the "Architecture of Cooperation": “The theme of the lecture addresses a question: how can we design spaces in the city which encourage strangers to cooperate?

To explore this question, I'll draw on research in the social sciences about cooperation, based on my book, and relate this research to current issues in urban design.”— Richard Sennett 6:32: Lots of PhD students in the house. No sign that we're starting anytime soon. 6:40: GSD's Jim Stockard is making introductions. 6:45: Richard Sennett takes the podium and says that he hasn't spent much time at Harvard since the 80s, but is glad to be back for this week and next. This book on Cooperation, called is the second in a trilogy of books called . " Cooperation is doing with others what we can't do on our own. What Is Intelligence? Just a Byproduct of Cooperation. | IdeaFeed. What's the Latest Development? By developing computer simulations of neural networks that evolved over 50,000 generations, scientists at Trinity University have concluded that intelligence is an evolutionary byproduct of social teamwork.

Each neural network, or 'brain', took part in two social dilemmas in which "two players must choose between cooperation and defection during repeated rounds. Upon completion of either game, each 'brain' produced 'offspring' with other 'brains' that made more advantageous choices during the games. ... After 50,000 generations, the model showed that as cooperation increased, so did the intelligence of the programmed brains. " What's the Big Idea? Evolutionary biologists have long been puzzled by the high levels of intelligence that are seen in humans and other animals like primates, dolphins and birds.

Photo credit: shutterstock.com. The Foundation for P2P Alternatives. Book of the Day: Foundations of a Love Economy. Book. Dare to Care. A new foundation for economics and finance. Louis and Sandra Bohtlingk. The video introduction by the author of the book is followed by an excerpt from the foreword, which contains an appreciation of the book’s approach by Hazel Hederson. 1.

Watch the video: www.youtube.com/watch? V=KOr0SLsh1F8 Read the foreword by Hazel Henderson: “My first encounter with Louis Bohtlingk was in late 2010 in an hour-long phone conversation. Louis and Sandra’s work had been recommended to me by my two dear, long time friends John Steiner and Steve Schueth and this convinced me to help Louis with this book. One of my dearest friends and mentors, E. Since I published my first of several articles in the Harvard Business Review in 1968, I have circled our beautiful planet speaking to groups in over 50 countries.

Thus, I have special joy in writing this Foreword, since it brings together so many strands in my life, as well as those of Louis and Sandra and those they touch. Five rules for the evolution of cooperation. Video of the Day: Richard Sennett on the Architecture of Cooperation.