Talk at Procurement for Housing annual conference on the opportunities for collaboration in social innovation.

1. Collaboration for Social Good
@ PfH
Nick Jankel
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3. What is collaboration?
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4. The spectrum
Co-operation Collaboration Co-creation
Increasing possibilities
Decreasing control
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5. Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the co-
operation of many minds.
Alexander Graham Bell
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6. The Surui
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8. Re-amp.org
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9. disintegration
Most collaborations and
co-creations are not
successful.
despotism
doldrums
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10. Because our society is based on a
pervasive mindset...
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11. Lupus est homo homini
Man is a wolf to man, not a man
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23. Collaborations are inherently risky
and expensive to start.
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24. So why fight the status quo to
collaborate for good?
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40. How do we make collaborations
work?
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41. Lupus est homo homini
Man is a wolf to man, not a man
Plautus, Asinaria
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42. Lupus est homo homini, non homo,
quom qualis sit non novit.
Man is a wolf to man, not a man,
when he has not yet found himself.
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43. Collaboration creates species advantage
In the long history
of humankind (and
animal kind, too)
those who learned to
collaborate and
improvise most
effectively have
prevailed.
Charles Darwin
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44. We may not have a selfish gene
Vampire bats
share their food
with those less
lucky - but those
who cheat don’t
get any in the
future.
Wilkinson et. al.
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45. We are designed to collaborate
Chimps and
infants both
instinctively help
adults without
reward or
training.
Frans de Waal &
Michael
Tomasello
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46. Altruism is hard-wired and fun
Altruism activates the
mesolimbic reward pathway,
a primitive part of the brain
that usually lights up in
response to food, drugs and
sex. They also activate the
subgenual cortex which are
intimately related to social
attachment and bonding in
other species.
Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences
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47. Collaborations work for us
62 % of new co-ops are
still operating after 10
years
vs.
44 % for new private
sector businesses
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48. Trust pays
Trust is one of the
strongest known indicators
of a countryʼs wealth
A 15 percent increase
in the proportion of
people who think
their compatriots are
trustworthy raises per
capita growth by 1
percent for every year
thereafter.
Professor Zak
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49. Most of the resources, money and ideas
to solve out greatest challenges are out
there.
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50. We just need to collaborate.
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51. But our minds have been schooled,
conditioned and trained to think
otherwise.
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52. Mind-forged manacles.
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53. Collaboration is a leadership
challenge...
... an individual leadership
opportunity.
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54. In the world of large institutional networks we face
issues for which hierarchical leadership is inherently
inadequate.
This is the big difference of our world.
That’s why ‘becoming a real human being’ really is
the primary leadership issue of our time, but on a
scale never required before.
Professor C. Otto Scharmer
MIT Sloan School of Management
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55. Leverage that network
Your behaviours are
influenced by others in
your network far more
strongly than you might
think, even by people
you’ve never met. Even
obesity may be more
influenced by your peers
than by your parents.
New Scientist, 2009
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56. 6 steps for collaborative innovation
Build trust &
forgiveness
Enable
group magic
Co-create
visionary
win-win-
wins
Orchestrate
a symphony
Harness
collective
creativity
Create
firmest
foundations
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57. Encourage
and support
growth
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58. Every collaboration helps you grow.
Brian Eno
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60. Build a viral
grassroots
collaborative
culture
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61. one mind
at a time
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62. How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait
a single moment before starting to improve
the world.
Anne Frank
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