If you’re new to MovingFromMeToWe.com, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Five men are walking across the Golden Gate Bridge on an outing organized by their wives who are college friends. The women move ahead in animated conversation. One man describes the engineering involved in the bridge’s long suspension. Another [...]
The sum of us can be more powerful (and fun) than one of us… sometimes. The confounding thing is exactly how we make it happen. Even when we have a strong desire to collaborate, we are likely bump up against into each other because, as in love, good intentions don’t always lead to mutually satisfying behavior. [...]
A sign of the growing popularity of all kinds of collaboration is the growing number of books on some aspect of the topic. What are your favorites? Here are some I’ve come across: Alone Together: Sociable Robots, Digitized Friends, and the Reinvention of Intimacy and Solitude by Sherry Turkle. The Big Sort: Why the Clustering [...]
If villagers living in the midst of poverty and war can be nudged to work better together with just three simple rules (honed via a parental competition study) and a reward (money, in this case) then maybe your group (team, board, committee, etc.) could too: 1. The village leaders (or your project leader) are elected by secret ballot. 2. The village (or [...]
Unconditional love is a swell idea yet admit it. Aren’t there times you’d like to change other’s behavior? Get them to act right, like you. Or perhaps you’d like to drop a bad habit. Then learn how to “nudge.” That’s a situational prompt that sways people to change. For example, the traditional approach to getting drivers to [...]
Steve Jobs sparked hot debate about the rich “getting to jump to the head of the line” when he revealed that he was able to get a liver transplant in a remarkably short time. 5,771 Americans are waiting for a liver. Last year, 1,481 Americans died waiting. People’s lives could be saved simply by changing the law to an opt-out option [...]
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