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‘Collaborate’ or ‘Fragmentate’!

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It was Einstein who once famously said that ‘we can’t solve the problems we face with the same consciousness that created them.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This quote, and variations on it, are attributed to Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner.

  2. 2.

    Lynda Gratton leads the Hot Spots Movement and Future of Work Research Consortium. One of the recent themes was ‘the collaboration Imperative’, see http://www.lyndagratton.com/Future-of-Work.html (accessed September 1, 2015).

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    http://www.velon.cc (accessed October 1, 2015).

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    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/11-worldtour-teams-create-velon-business-group/ (accessed October 1, 2015).

  5. 5.

    Ibid.

  6. 6.

    The KaosPilots is an alternative business school based in Aarhus, Denmark. See http://www.kaospilot.dk (accessed October 1, 2015).

  7. 7.

    https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Gibson (accessed July 1, 2015).

  8. 8.

    http://www.actionaid.org/kenya/what-we-do/empowering-women-and-girls-living-poverty-and-exclusion (accessed April 30, 2015).

  9. 9.

    http://www.jefflucas.org (accessed October 1, 2015).

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Emmens, B. (2016). ‘Collaborate’ or ‘Fragmentate’!. In: Conscious Collaboration. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53805-5_2

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