10 Collaboration Superpowers Jane McGonigal, PhD | Resident Game Designer INSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURE April 15, 2007 collaboration

collaboration superpowers Gamers are gaining 10 new skills and strengths, or, “ collaboration superpowers .”

the ability to do real-time work in very large groups a talent for coordinating with many people simultaneously—“scalable collaboration” mobbability

the ability to do real-time work in very large groups

a talent for coordinating with many people simultaneously—“scalable collaboration”

cooperation radar the ability to sense, almost intuitively, who would make the best collaborators on a particular task

the ability to sense, almost intuitively, who would make the best collaborators on a particular task

measures your responsiveness to other people’s requests for engagement your propensity and ability to reach out to others in a network ping quotient

measures your responsiveness to other people’s requests for engagement

your propensity and ability to reach out to others in a network

the ability to be persuasive in diverse social contexts and media spaces understanding that each work environment and collaboration space requires a different persuasive strategy and technique influency

the ability to be persuasive in diverse social contexts and media spaces

understanding that each work environment and collaboration space requires a different persuasive strategy and technique

fluency in working with different capitals, e.g., natural, intellectual, social, and financial multi-capitalism

fluency in working with different capitals, e.g., natural, intellectual, social, and financial

fearless innovation in rapid, iterative cycles ability to lower the costs and increase the speed of failure protovation

fearless innovation in rapid, iterative cycles

ability to lower the costs and increase the speed of failure

creating content for public consumption and modification open authorship

creating content for public consumption and modification

thinking in terms of higher level systems, cycles, the big picture longbroading

thinking in terms of higher level systems, cycles, the big picture

the ability to prepare for and handle surprising results and complexity emergensight

the ability to prepare for and handle surprising results and complexity

filtering meaningful info, patterns, and commonalities from massively multiple streams of data signal/noise management

filtering meaningful info, patterns, and commonalities from massively multiple streams of data