Cooperation, Collaboration, and the Diffusion of Affiliation

Loose versus tight connections lead to very different sorts of business culture, and personal identities

I got an email from Kakul Srivastava, of Tomfoolery. She posted this on Twitter the other day [note: 22 May 2013!]:

giving self a day to catch up on @stoweboyd posts. brain happy. G. Bateson: 'a business is best considered as a network of conversations'

Her day led to a few questions that Kakul emailed to me. Here's the first one:

Is the fundamental nature…