Collaboration
One of the themes of Not An Employee is collaboration. Here we’ve created a little website and a small business run by people who have never once sat down and said “Ok, we’re going to start a business and have a website and Laura will design it and Barbara will handle the paperwork and Brian will quote stuff and Bill will do whatever it is that Bill does.” We are lucky(?) that our skills complement each others’. We collaborate, but it came about almost by accident.
Just over the past few months, Not An Employee has raised more questions than it’s answered: Is this serendipity normal? How do we work with others in a way that is more fulfilling than just getting paid? (Pay is awesomely useful, but if that is all that mattered we wouldn’t be doing this.) How do we become “collaborators” where others see “contractors”? Is it possible to contract collaboration?
I certainly don’t have any answers. Together we may be able to generate some ideas, though. You know, through collaboration.
Author: Barbara
Posted: Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Category: Philosophy
Tags: collaboration, ideas, questions
