{"id":147,"date":"2011-10-31T09:25:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T16:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/?p=147"},"modified":"2011-10-31T09:25:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T16:25:01","slug":"going-forward-there-is-no-collective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/2011\/10\/going-forward-there-is-no-collective\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Forward, There Is No &#8220;Collective&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/2011\/10\/going-forward-there-is-no-collective\/borg-in-alcove-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-150\" title=\"borg-in-alcove\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/borg-in-alcove2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/borg-in-alcove2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/borg-in-alcove2-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/borg-in-alcove2-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>In a &#8220;collective&#8221; &#8211; the component parts exist only\u00a0to serve the good of the whole.\u00a0 There\u00a0is\u00a0no appreciation of\u00a0individuality, independence, choice, creativity, dialogue, agility or soul.\u00a0 Collectives are imposed.\u00a0 As the Borg in Star Trek say, <em>&#8220;You will be assimilated.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Collective&#8221; is NOT\u00a0a synonym for &#8220;collaboration.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Try\u00a0gathering a group of people\u00a0together to discuss HOW to address some shared need or\u00a0pursue some mutual\u00a0objective and it becomes quickly obvious that\u00a0people make decisions for different reasons,\u00a0at different times and with very different expectations.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The voluntary agreement of people (and organizations) to work together for mutual benefit requires\u00a0negotiation &#8211; bourne out of mutual respect and\u00a0 individuality.\u00a0\u00a0Nobody wants their identity subsumed.\u00a0 Nobody willingly signs away the right to change their\u00a0mind.<\/p>\n<p>A collaboration actually draws strength from\u00a0its diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Collaboration is organic.\u00a0\u00a0Sure, its\u00a0process\u00a0can be frustrating, time-consuming and\u00a0challenging.\u00a0 But its virtue is that it can be\u00a0incredibly inclusive and robust &#8211;\u00a0comprised of multiple strands and responsive to any number of changes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Collectives&#8221; may be efficient\u00a0and able to deal brute force.\u00a0 But they are lifeless, dehumanizing\u00a0entities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a &#8220;collective&#8221; &#8211; the component parts exist only\u00a0to serve the good of the whole.\u00a0 There\u00a0is\u00a0no appreciation of\u00a0individuality, independence, choice, creativity, dialogue, agility or soul.\u00a0 Collectives are imposed.\u00a0 As the Borg in Star Trek say, &#8220;You will be assimilated.&#8221; &#8220;Collective&#8221; is NOT\u00a0a synonym for &#8220;collaboration.&#8221; Try\u00a0gathering a group of people\u00a0together to discuss HOW to address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-morale","7":"category-strategy","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}