The Not-So-Secret Ingredient to Delightful Communities and Powerful Collaboration

The Not-So-Secret Ingredient to Delightful Communities and Powerful CollaborationEugene Eric Kim <eekim@blueoxen.com>June 18, 2011TEDx SoMa

What’s the best experience you've ever had collaborating

with others?

Imagine a world where everybody’s experiences

collaborating were that good.

How do we get there?!

Practice

“Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”

—Martha Graham

Refuting the Magic Tool Approach

How long did it take you to learn how to use this?

How about this?

Or this?

Models of Practice

What do music and sportshave in common?

Practice

What do music and sportshave in common?

John Wooden’s Practice Wisdom

PracticingKnowledge Work

Good Information Hygiene

Listening

“If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don't do it.”

—Ray Bradbury

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to my friend, Amy Wu Wong <http://wordsdesign.com/>, for the delightful sketches!

Bicycle and tricycle photos by:

• Toronto Criterium. By Andrew Louis. CC-BY-NC• Big Wheel Race. By Andrew St. Clair. CC-BY-NC-SA