© 2005 Institute for the Future. All rights reserved.

SR-1108 | © 2007 Institute for the Future. All rights reserved.

10 Collaboration Superpowers

Jane McGonigal, PhD | Resident Game Designer

INSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURE

April 15, 2007

collaboration

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collaboration superpowers

Gamers are gaining10 new skills and strengths, or,

“collaboration superpowers.”

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• the ability to do real-time work in very large groups

• a talent for coordinating with many people simultaneously—“scalable collaboration”

mobbability

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cooperation radar

• the ability to sense, almost intuitively, who would make the best collaborators on a particular task

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• measures your responsiveness to other people’s requests for engagement

• your propensity and ability to reach out to others in a network

ping quotient

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• 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

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• fluency in working with different capitals, e.g., natural, intellectual, social, and financial

multi-capitalism

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• fearless innovation in rapid, iterative cycles

• ability to lower the costs and increase the speed of failure

protovation

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• creating content for public consumption and modification

open authorship

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• thinking in terms of higher level

systems, cycles, the big picture

longbroading

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• the ability to prepare for and handle surprising results and complexity

emergensight

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• filtering meaningful info, patterns, and commonalities from massively multiple streams of data

signal/noise management