Serious Play
"How the world's leading companies model, prototype, and simulate to innovate"--Jacket.
Stats for nerds
0recommend
2mentions
2people
2010–2023years
100% neutral
Mentions per year
What Hacker News says
- The website and the cover of the linked book Serious Play (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0875848141/softwgarde...) have such a 90s vibe, it's making me nostalgic.
- "When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary." William Wrigley Jr.
I think you need to distinguish between values conflicts, where you should have very high agreement, and disagreements over strategies or tactics to implement or sell your product.
If your co-founder can't make suggestions to improve what you are working on at least half the time I don't think you have a lot of synergy.
Michael Schrage studied a number of collaborative teams for his books "Shared Minds" and "Serious Play." He concluded that it was a shared focus on a problem that was larger than they could solve individually that encouraged collaboration. That does not mean that team members agree most of the time.
