TEDx Macatawa 2015 Session 2d: Fred Bueltmann, Community of Collaboration

• heard music in a different way when listening to Ahmad Jamal, Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival, 1985
• barriers to collaboration - all talk & no listen
• accomplishment over experience
• little boxes
• death grip for control — worry about the unknown
• recipe first, ingredients second
• pace – get it done yesterday
• http://www.michiganbrewersguild.com- collaboration started by talking about what various brewers had in common
• 1st Michigan Beer Festival was a common project to work on together
• familiarity helped people work together and not demonize the others
• by working together they could welcome talent
• look for atypical collaborators in the world
• Carhart Woodsman Collaboration - shared stories about each organization
• conversations bring things we have in common
• by looking less literally they saw they had community
• horses - getting spooked blocks communication
• loosen grip and let things look different and have a 2-way dialog
• “from conversation comes leadership, from leadership comes trust”
• beginning cook - take a look at what is around us first and be a curator for those things and make things from them
• art is about celebrating beauty around you
• focus on “what is” and going from there
• collaboration takes time and conversation - be patient and allow time, growth, conversation
• nurtures growth and root stock
• the collaboration posture - learn to listen
• contribute to the greater good
• welcome talent besides our own
• embrace sibling rivalry
• community made from shared ideals,
• ….and more…..
• “passions transcend our jobs” - our passions will follow us everywhere
• be inspired by the passions of others
• a return to a connected lifestyle is happening all around us
• “I don’t compete against my collaborators. I compete against apathy.”
• “think about how we can work together, with what is, and change the world today”

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