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“Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler.”

Quote by Margaret Heffernan

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Margaret Heffernan

Margaret Heffernan is a British writer and entrepreneur known for her insightful views on leadership and collaboration. Her work explores human behavior and team dynamics, emphasizing the importance of trust and transparency in organizational success. more

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“If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.”

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“On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook on my iPod so my brain knows, regardless of time zone, that that voice means it's time for bed.”

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“Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.”

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“The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.”

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“I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.”

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“Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.”

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