Despite how much we try not to, despite our greatest efforts, we are forced to mingle. So it has been since civilization began. People seem to accomplish more when they work together, albeit the definition of accomplish can be interpreted many different ways. Collaboration has brought us both the industrial and technological revolutions that have improved our lives 100 fold in the last century, yet it has also dumped upon us the scourges of chemical pollution and nuclear warfare.
Humans work well together, as long as they have common goals.
Unfortunately, those goals can become a little clouded by the weaknesses of the very human nature that makes us strong. It s on every level of our lives. Well, if you haven t caught on yet, I mean networking between Macs and PCs. We were told that we needed to nominate someone in the office to be the liaison with IT so they could talk us through the process, since IT field reps were at a premium, and the network conversion to LANs would be relatively painless. I knew nothing about them then, so we decided to relegate it to the heap, instead of trying to fit this square peg into our network hole.