[game_edu] An article AGAINST pit style offices and other forced group measures?

[Sheri Rubin]

It sure seems so here: 
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/opinion/sunday/the-rise-of-the-new-groupthink.htm

"SOLITUDE is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture 
are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that 
creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of 
us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize 
people skills above all. Lone geniuses are out. Collaboration is in.

But there’s a problem with this view. Research strongly suggests that 
people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from 
interruption. And the most spectacularly creative people in many fields 
are often introverted, according to studies by the psychologists Mihaly 
Csikszentmihalyi and Gregory Feist. They’re extroverted enough to 
exchange and advance ideas, but see themselves as independent and 
individualistic. They’re not joiners by nature. "

Highly recommend reading as much of it as you can..
Sheri

P.S. Posted it here mainly due to the recent thread on group projects.

-- 
*Sheri Rubin*
Founder and CEO

*Design Direct Deliver*
Website: http://www.designdirectdeliver.com
Email: sheri at designdirectdeliver.com <mailto:sheri at designdirectdeliver.com>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_edu/attachments/20120115/cd078c0f/attachment.htm>