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By oscar berg

If HP knew what HP knows, we would be three times as profitable.

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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence with those who can use it.

The challengesARE NOT

insignificant

There's a huge opportunity to leverage skills and expertise you already have in your company, but the problem is finding it.

Rick Hutley, Cisco

Physical separation from others in daily life drastically reduces the likelihood of

voluntary work collaboration.Kiesler and Cummings, 2004

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Joseph Priestley

A lack of observation and conversation poses problems for many groups trying to

make decisions or work together.Baum & Davies, 1980

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

there ARESOLUTIONS

Most of the barriers to group action have collapsed…

We can have groups that operate with a birthday party's informality and a multinational's scope.

Clay Shirky

…with the Web, collaboration costs are dropping outside the boundaries of companies, so the world can become your talent.

Data in the hands of a few makes for order; but data in the hands of many makes for endless possibilities.

Enterprise 2.0 [is about] letting users into your back office and turning your company inside out.

Get THIS intoYour Mindset

Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas.

The other guys think the purpose of communication is to get information. We think the purpose of information is to foster communication.Mark Zuckerberg

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

The basic building block

of good communication

is the feeling that every

human being is unique and of

value.Unknown

People have been interacting with other people for much longer than the internet has been around, so give them the tools,

and set them free.

Rolf Skyberg, eBay

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