Collaboration and status

Johnnie Moore

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I’m Johnnie Moore, and I help people work better together

Sometimes I go searching for something in an old post and stumble on other stuff I wrote years ago. This can lead to cringes but occasionally to things I think bear repeating such as this this reflection on how come collaboration sometimes seems so difficult:

Collaboration is a low status game. The offer to collaborate generally involves an opening up, a suggestion of vulnerability.

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