People’s achievements through collaboration could be much more amazing than ones
produced in the competitive environment. In Leadbeater’s (2005: 17) opinion, “partnerships
between public sector organisations are commonplace as public service organisations
explore new, more collaborative models. In education, for example, federations,
clusters and networks are increasingly common as a route to school improvement”.
People need to work together to produce ideas and nourish them; more people means
more attitudes, opinions, views, to sum up, – more ideas. When Leadbeater (2008)
argues for collaboration, he claims that “most creativity is collaborative. It combines
different views, disciplines and insights in new ways . The number of people who
could be participants in the creative conversations is going up . We are developing
new ways to be innovative and creative at mass scale. We can be organised without
having an organisation” (Howkins 2010: 66).
While sifting arts organisations, Leadbeater (2005: 18) found several various aspects
of networking, which should be encouraged and which also are relevant to any physical
subject in human eco-systems: collaboration to share facilities, back office infrastructure
and even aspects of creative production, such as set design and production; using networks
to access a variety of talents as sources of creativity; developing partnerships to
access global markets, pursuing education and outreach programs via partnerships, etc.