Learning and Working in the Collaborative Age: A New Model for the Workplace. Pixar University's Randy Nelson explains what schools must do to prepare students for jobs in new media.

I don't think the talk needs to be pidgeon holed to careers in new media but serves as a commentary for businesses, educators, and people in general. It's an inspiring talk. Here are some somewhat key passages:

Make your partner look good ... (which might be along the same train of thought as killing the devils advocate). Take a piece of work and don't judge it ... take the work and say, here is where I am starting, what can I do with this?

The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.

Proof of Portfolio vs. promise of a resume.

Collaboration is amplification. The amplification you get by connecting a bunch of human beings .. who are listening to each other, interested in each other, bring separate depths to the problem, bring breadth that gives them interest in the entire solution, allows them to communicate on multiple different levels (in writing, in acting, in pictures/imagery) ... in all those ways you get a high fidelity notion across a broad range of people.

Be interested, not interesting

The original video is located here.

Categorized: Work and Working , Innovation

Tagged: Collaboration, Pixar