Weekly Digest #107

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Data Science at Spotify Camp Nou

The Case Against Collaboration

Collaboration is useful when you are:

1. Dealing with complex problems that require multiple ‘expert’ opinions.
2. Getting buy-in. People are more invested in an idea when they were involved in defining the problem.
3. Dealing with strategic issues. The more fundamental the issue is to the organisations purpose the more essential collaboration becomes.

Collaboration isn’t useful when:

1. You need to really think about things. This benefits from solitude and purposeful exploration.
2. You need to be really radical. Truly disruptive thinking happens in very small deviant groups.
3. You don’t have time. When you have a burning platform or require an immediate decision you’re better off being autocratic than wasting peoples time through ‘involvement theatre’.

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