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
cooperation radar 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
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
fluency in working with different capitals, e.g., natural, intellectual, social, and financial multi-capitalism
fearless innovation in rapid, iterative cycles ability to lower the costs and increase the speed of failure protovation
creating content for public consumption and modification  open authorship
thinking in terms of higher level systems, cycles, the big picture  longbroading
the ability to prepare for and handle surprising results and complexity  emergensight
filtering meaningful info, patterns, and commonalities from massively multiple streams of data signal/noise management

10 Collaboration Superpowers

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    10 Collaboration SuperpowersJane McGonigal, PhD | Resident Game Designer INSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURE April 15, 2007 collaboration
  • 2.
    collaboration superpowers Gamersare gaining 10 new skills and strengths, or, “ collaboration superpowers .”
  • 3.
    the ability todo real-time work in very large groups a talent for coordinating with many people simultaneously—“scalable collaboration” mobbability
  • 4.
    cooperation radar theability to sense, almost intuitively, who would make the best collaborators on a particular task
  • 5.
    measures your responsivenessto other people’s requests for engagement your propensity and ability to reach out to others in a network ping quotient
  • 6.
    the ability tobe persuasive in diverse social contexts and media spaces understanding that each work environment and collaboration space requires a different persuasive strategy and technique influency
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    fluency in workingwith different capitals, e.g., natural, intellectual, social, and financial multi-capitalism
  • 8.
    fearless innovation inrapid, iterative cycles ability to lower the costs and increase the speed of failure protovation
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    creating content forpublic consumption and modification open authorship
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    thinking in termsof higher level systems, cycles, the big picture longbroading
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    the ability toprepare for and handle surprising results and complexity emergensight
  • 12.
    filtering meaningful info,patterns, and commonalities from massively multiple streams of data signal/noise management