I recently posted a blog discussing the difference between team work and collaboration.   I thought it would be nice to provide you with a concrete example. 

Two of my favorite blogs I read recently had posts about recruiting for your business.  Individually, either blog is an excellent resource which will improve your efforts.   But if you combine them the results can be even better. 

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I’ve really started to appreciate the benefit of “blending” ideas together – just another form of collaboration.  Thanks Simon and David!  If you have other ideas or examples please throw it in the blender for the rest of us!

According to Wikipedia, there are some 480 million Monopoly players worldwide making it the most played board game in the world (Guinness Book of World Records).   The recent global financial crisis makes me wonder what games like Monopoly are teaching us.   Greed?  Win-lose?  Having been played billions of times, it’s having some influence on our behaviors and our beliefs.  

Maybe it’s time time to play a different kind of game.   Here’s one - Games With a Purpose (GWAP) .  A game that’s fun to play, where everyone can win (I thought it was that everyone wins.) and that serves a purpose.  Why isn’t there a “popular