In een boek over evaluatiemethoden kwam ik deze vergelijking van samenwerken met ‘teanage sex’ tegen:
“Funders push collaborations both because they believe that people working together can accomplish more than those same people working apart, but also because it makes funding administratively easy: fund one entity (the collaboration) rather than many. But collaborations are not inherently good. They can be quite hard to manage and huge time-wasters for all involved. At a youth conference once I heard a presenter compare working collaboratively to teenage sex:
Everyone talks about it all the time.
Everyone thinks everyone else is doing it.
Those who are doing it aren’t doing it very well.
Despite that, everybody talks about how good it feels.”
Bron: Patton MQ (2011) Developmental Evaluation – applying complexity concepts to enhance innovation and use. New York: The Guilford Press. p.244.



