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Stephen Downes

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Mark Britz offers a short and accurate characterization of why collaboration isn't the golden calf in organizations it appears to be. Collaboration is "two or more people working together to create or achieve the same thing." But that's not how most of our interactions work. "When we stop and consider how much of our interactions at work are really cooperative rather than collaborative, we might want to better call it what it is." Agreed.

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