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…the downside to more collaboration is more conflict.

Collaboration isn’t just something a team should do during their agile events. It’s a default way of working.

…since everybody works in teams to one extent or another, the ability to collaborate as a team player is always at a premium.

…in the Age of Digital, where product development is unique, lack of collaboration and shared learnings has a direct negative impact on productivity and organizational outcomes.

Getting good at true collaboration is at the heart of how strong product teams work.

…when the focus is on competition, not collaboration, little is done to cultivate mutually respectful, healthy working relationships.

…the very existence of bullshit jobs raises certain problems for any labor theory of value.

…men see themselves as creating the world from their minds and brawn, and see that as the essence of ‘work,’ leaving to women most of the actual labor of tidying and maintaining things to make this illusion possible.

…the skill at reading others’ emotions is just an effect of what working-class work actually consists of: rich people don’t have to learn how to interpret labor nearly as well…

…centralizing decision authority can often reduce the delays resulting from more collaborative and consensus-driven approaches.