Creative network
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A creative network is a loose group of no more than a dozen people creating something in art or science or business. It is never larger than about a dozen people who may move from one project to another as a troupe or team.
They have only a few goals at at time, and never more than one major goal. Each person plays a tightly or loosely defined role in the network. For instance to make a movie you need a writer, director, producer and actors, and maybe also costumer, cameraman (if the director can't do it all), audio engineer, film editor, if the project is big enough and the schedule tight enough. Very often the roles and timing are determined by a power network (say the bank or studio that funds the project). However, the creative control remains within the small creative network.
People in a creative network collaborate closely and share many values. They stay small to keep these values undisputed (saving much hassle), and to keep working through consensus alone, without a lot of process. Good creative work rarely comes from a big mob!
These networks are smaller than a contact network, social network or power network and they tend to get the most done, and be the most fair to people within their circle. Above a dozen people, politics as usual and groupthink apply, and there may be a self-interested fork or two, or many.
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