June 12

Saturday, June 12, 2021 9:29 AM

There is an interesting principle that states all things, even normally positive traits and actions, taken to extremes, can be a detriment and disadvantage.  For example, tidiness and neatness can become obsessive and create obstacles in one's life.  Collaboration in our work is no different.  Collaboration to the extreme that creates the situation that excludes individual work and the benefits of solitude will obstruct the achievement of excellence.  Collaboration must be in a practical balance with the need for one to work alone and privately to do the best thinking possible and achieve the greatest results; it is not one or the other, the but presence of both, in the right mix, that achieves the greatest results.  Collaboration is important as it taps in the combinatorial effects of working together, but it must also be balanced and not taken to extreme as it will obstruct the greatest results possible.


We don’t need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run.  Susan Cain

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.  Pablo Picasso

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. Rumi