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How we collaborate has profound implications for how we live and work. The author and New York University professor explains how social media has upended traditional norms.
The disruptive power of collaboration: An interview with Clay Shirky
How we collaborate has profound implications for how we live and work. The author and New York University professor explains how social media has upended traditional norms.
Sharing changes everything. CUpending supply and demand. Creating success from failure.
From the invention of the printing press to the telephone, the radio, and the Internet, the ways people collaborate change frequently, and the effects of those changes often reverberate through generations. In this video interview, Clay Shirky, author, New York University professor, and leading thinker on the impact of social media, explains the disruptive impact of technology on how people live and work—and on the economics of what we make and consume. This interview was conducted by McKinsey Global Institute partner Michael Chui, and an edited transcript of Shirky’s remarks follows....
In an age of increased scarcity, we need more energetic ways of working to achieve results. When you add in the changing requirements of businesses, technology and society and the evolving consumer, it's easy to see that collaboration is not just the preferable way forward, but the only way to achieve.
This interview looks at ways in which collaborative technologies and working practices can enable teams and organisations to succeed and adapt more effectively, faster and with less cost and time.
The question is whether you can embed these practices into your organisation well enough to make the changes you need to see.