TEDx Macatawa 2015 Session 3a:  Seth Starner, Why Collaborate? Why Now?

• wicked problems in society now
• 20th century = good at solving complicated problems - take puzzle pieces and put them together
• can be solved
• 21st century = solving complex problems (wicked problems) - global poverty
• race connected to poverty connected to education
• 20th century = competition - driven to find the right solutions
• 21st century = co-opetition- John Nash came up with this idea
• times to collaborate and time to compete
• need to be able to toggle between being collaborative and being competitive
• example is getting educators and businesses collaborating on changing education together
• establish trust
• see shared perspective
• example: collaboration by default: building 20- many physicist gathered together
• being within 10 meters of each other brings about frequent collaboration
• types of collaboration: - black hole collaboration: agree on problem but can’t work together for solution
• civil war collaboration: can’t agree on a problem
• productive collaboration:  bring together a tribe/community by design - shared experience
• common understanding
• building to build
• actively building a small community around a problem
• allow for divergence AND convergence
• deconstruct assumptions and eliminate bad ideas
• language trajectory of collaboration - we can do better
• yes, and
• what if…
• how might we…
• what are we learning? (other people )
• how can we scale?
• language trajectory ofstatus quo - yes, but
• we’re good
• we’ve tried that
• that won’t work because
• we know it wouldn’t work
• this will cannibalize our business
• Tribing = creating wicked solutions - system based
• cross-sector/cross silo
• engage & design for behavior change
• aim for simplexity (simpler not simple)
• iterative
• dynamic & agile approach
• “Let’s collaborate!”

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