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Apr
8
2009

The greater the collaboration (measured by hours of help a team received), the worse the result (measured by success in winning contracts). We ultimately determined that experienced teams typically didn’t learn as much from their peers as they thought they did. And whatever marginal knowledge they did gain was often outweighed by the time taken away from their work on the proposal.

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  • Too often a business leader asks, How can we get people to collaborate more? That’s the wrong question. It should be, Will collaboration on this project create or destroy value? In fact, to collaborate well is to know when not to do it.
Jul
26
2008

1) Underinvest in innovation (note the relatively small scale involved).
2) Overinvest in consolidation.
3) Make profit an illusion.
4)Defend obsolete business models.
5) Be willing to sell everything out - everything.
6) Never count tomorrow's costs.
7) Build industries around the cult of the deal.
8) Turn corporate governance into the costliest activity in the economy.
9) Forget that the point of business is to change the world for the better.
10) Expropriate wealth from taxpayers to subsidize market failure.
11) Expropriate rights from people to embed failure into the very structure of the market.
12) Pump more liquidity into decaying DNA.

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