The idea that visionary geniuses are best-poised for radical innovation is simply misleading. Maybe Jobs or Steve Wozniak were visionary geniuses working in uninterrupted solitary isolation … when they weren’t busy working crazy-long hours with the rest of their über-talented crews in the cultural cradle of high-tech innovation.

frogdesign’s Fabio Sergio says blending dissonant goals into harmony is the secret to innovation, emphasizing collaborative environments – a view contrary to certain famous entrepreneurs‘ insistence that working alone is the secret to creativity. (via curiositycounts)