Are we collaborating or flying solo?… Susan Cain for the NY Times on how society (business, education, popular culture) is more and more group or teamwork driven. “Lone geniuses are out. Collaboration is in.” Cain argues that this trend is often problematic where creative people in most fields are often introverts and benefit from privacy and freedom of interruption. Cain sites the example of Apple with Steve Jobs’s renowned magnetism and the tendency to overlook the introverted engineering wizard, Steve Wozniak, who toiled more or less alone on their innovative projects. Our humble view falls in those beautiful, forgotten shades of gray… teamwork is often critical for ideas, strategy development, refinement, bringing concepts to fruition while individual effort usually and efficiently produces more depth and truly innovative and unfiltered thinking. Like that great painter said… “Without great solitude, no serious work is possible” (Picasso).