Collaboration Critic Pillows

"The key is to keep the momentum going when you're establishing the base of the snowman..."

"Don't even interact with him. He just likes to say 'Kalamazoo.'"

'Asynchronous, collaborative, interactive - we're obviously on a roll.'

"She's in a conversationally induced coma."

"... And to our friends in the Liberal Democratic party I award thirty pieces of silver."

Collective Psyche

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to far, go together." - African proverb.

'Come on, come on, let's work together!'

"Of course we'll give you a choice. Would you prefer to lose your job to outsourcing or to robotic automation?"

'It never fails. I offer a tiny bit of constructive criticism, and everybody accuses me of carping!'

"Do you mind if I bounce something off you?"

"I'm leaving. It's just way too much collaborating."

'Does anyone else have any complaints?'

Genius

'I can beat my own drum but it'll be counting on your to toot my horn.'

When we believe together we achieve together.

'We like the teamwork idea, but Billy won't let us play with his ball.'

Harris, our Annual Report has been criticised for lack of clarity - well done.

Welcome to Teamville, Population: 7 ... great people to work with.

We can do ANYTHING if we all work TOGETHER.

'Trust is vital to the teams working relationship.'

"I always know what Harry's going to say, and he always knows what I'm going to say, so, by and large, we just don't bother."

Open Source.

"Just got back from the client meeting and great news. . . your work isn't dead. It's beaten senseless and run over by a dump truck...but still very much alive."

'What if this time, more heads has made us more stupid?'

'We like the teamwork idea, but Mr. Superstar won't let us play with his ball.'

'We don't need helicopter vision, Manfred. We need a helicopter.'

TEAM

Meeting!

"This conversation is being performed in front of a live audience."

'The toughest things to deal with are a new, charismatic opponent and a former colleague's memoirs.'

'Don't tell me...Team A has the educated guess and Team B the uneducated guess.'

"It's okay, Mr. Topley! Larry does this every time I agree with one of his ideas!"