Then, they oppose collaboration and champion self-sufficiency.
Still others broadly oppose collaborations with for-profit external providers.
What struck me was how much convergence I saw around a vision RingCentral calls "collaborative communications". I didn't come up with that phrase, but I like it because it helps explain the emphasis on communications that leads to collaboration, as opposed to collaboration or social networking as the central experience.
"China is spying against us, and every U.S. government agency has been hit by cyberattacks," says Wolf in explaining why he opposes any collaboration with the Chinese government.
In my experience as a student at the University of California, Berkeley, and as a high school teacher, I have seen how the culture of athletics promotes anti-intellectualism, alcohol and drug abuse, violence and bullying, and competition as opposed to collaboration.
"The way this thing came into existence was diametrically opposed to collaboration," Winters said.
In the process, the attributes of leadership that produce strong communities and effective teams - hearing opposing views, collaboration, compromise - are sacrificed for cheap entertainment that resembles professional wrestling.
As one College professor opined "The MOH and MakCHS are not working hand-in-hand because of lack of institutional collaboration, as opposed to individual collaboration, and lack of planning together".
Teachers have widely complained that such restructuring, as the coalition statement puts it, "encourages competition--as opposed to collaboration--between schools and teachers".
Afghan officials have other reasons for opposing the covert collaboration of Afghan citizens in a messy Middle East war.
This holds true, he says, even with Gaza run by Hamas, which opposes the entire effort as useless collaboration with Israel and Washington.
