Collaborative circles don't have a smooth trajectory toward creative breakthrough. I describe the more common trajectory. I also do a little speculation on how a circle's "shared vision" consists of goals, habits, and "anti-trigger words." I also suggest that common notions of trust or psychological safety may not be fine-grained enough to understand circle-style creative breakthroughs.
I continue to work from Michael P. Farrell, Collaborative Circles: Friendship Dynamics and Creative Work, 2001.
Mentioned
"Bright and dull cows"
Sam Kaner, Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, 1996
Brian Marick, "Seven Years Later: What the Agile Manifesto Left Out", 2008
Image credits
The image is of a route map for a particular cave complex in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, USA. There is not a nice linear path from the starting point to (any) destination. This is also true of creative work, like collaborative circles. The image is in the public domain.
E45: The offloaded brain, part 5: I propose a software design style
E44: The offloaded brain, part 4: an interview with David Chapman
E43: The offloaded brain, part 3: dynamical systems
E42: The offloaded brain, part 2: applications
E41: The offloaded brain, part 1: behavior
EXCERPT: Concepts without categories
EXCERPT: Christopher Alexander’s forces
E40: Roles in collaborative circles, part 2: creative roles
E39: Roles in collaborative circles, part 1
E37: Resilience engineering with Lorin Hochstein
E36: BONUS: One circle-style history of Context-Driven Testing
BONUS: a circle-centric reading of software development through the 1990s, plus screech owls
E34: /Collaborative Circles/, part 1: a teaser
E33: Interview: Jessica Kerr on /Games: Agency as Art/
E32: Foucault, /Discipline and Punish/, part 3: expertise, panopticism, and the Big Visible Chart
E31: Foucault, /Discipline and Punish/, part 2: the factory
E30: Foucault, /Discipline and Punish/, and voluntary panopticism, part 1
E29: Interview: Trond Hjorteland on a radical approach to organizational transformation
E28: /Governing the Commons/, part 4: creating a successful commons
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