Michael Porter Quotes

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.

I always work with 18 friends.

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.

Anything where people have to work together makes me cry.

You know, it's just tough to get together and do work with somebody.

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.

But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen.

I know, for myself, I probably work a lot better in that - in the group environment. Only because if I am coming up short, someone else helps.

Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward.

In our group, it was a necessary requirement that one has to be able to collaborate.

Primates are really well designed to see who is not keeping up their end of the deal.

I hate teaming up with people. Absolutely hate it.

If you take 10,000 chimpanzees and cram them together into Wembley Stadium or the Houses of Parliament, you will get chaos. But if you take 10,000 people who have never met before, they can co-operate and create amazing things.

It's very exciting to be a part of a team of collaborators in general.

I enjoy collaborating with other people.

I don't like being on my own. I'm happy meeting people and collaborating.

Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we've had social thinking for 200,000 years, and hardly anything happened that could be considered progress over most of that time. This is because what is most pervasive about social thinking is 'how to get along and mutually cope.'

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.

I am always happiest in an ensemble.

Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us.