the cancer. Although the oncologist was a prominent expert in his field, Burton remembers him
“mainly for what he taught me about uncritical acceptance of believing that you ‘are doing good.’ The
only way you can really know is if you ask the patient and you have a dialogue.”
In collaborations, takers rarely cross this perspective gap. They’re so focused on their own
viewpoints that they never end up seeing how others are reacting to their ideas and feedback. On the
other hand, researcher Jim Berry and I discovered that in creative work, givers are motivated to
benefit others, so they find ways to
put themselves in other people’s shoes
. When George Meyer was
editing the work of
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