When it's a sharing and improvisational meeting, where you're riffing off other people's ideas, that actually can be productive.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really.
Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the best talkers.
Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.
You're really creative when you're in an environment that you don't know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction.
The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?
When you have more than two people working together, it gets a bit unfocused as an idea.
I like to think that we've got a plan, so let's stick to it. That said, once we've stuck to it, we're allowed as much improvisation as anyone cares to indulge themselves in.
Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.
Meetings should be like salt - a spice sprinkled carefully to enhance a dish, not poured recklessly over every forkful. Too much salt destroys a dish. Too many meetings destroy morale and motivation.
People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.