Today’s coffee companion manages collaboration products.
We talked about:
- going above and beyond when preparing a workshop that you can’t actually attend
- the challenges of team dynamics, personalities and linear people in wicked problem territories
- how wicked problems don’t chunk down into problems with solutions – they’re fractal and have complexity at every level into which you dive
- how value needs to be assessed qualitatively as well as quantitatively, yet quant is the only currency in business
- our respective career journeys
- how the real world Lord of the Flies saw everyone getting along just fine
- how inherently we all trust one another and are trustworthy
- how that allows us to be overrun by psychopaths as we all stand around thinking “They’ll never possibly do that“
- visiting the West Bank and Gaza in the 1990s
- how we are both in good places from a career perspective
- how generalists can be the first to be disposed of when the financial going gets tough
- the specialization of big organisations
- how the people who don’t look like their measurably doing much are often the team glue
- slipping through the cracks
- the future of collaborative spaces in AR/VR and breaking the tyranny of gravity
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