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# The Better Collaboration Question
- URL: https://www.philsimon.com/better-collaboration/
- Published: 2024-11-01T13:30:27.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-04T22:38:14.000Z
- Description: A short post on a nuance of working together today.
- Author: Phil Simon
- Tags: Collaboration, Technology, Trends, LCNC book, Microsoft Teams, PMHW, Productivity, Reimagining Collaboration, Zoom, Notion

Which tool will we use to do X?

After all, modern organizations use [dozens](https://www.okta.com/businesses-at-work/2021/?ref=philsimon.com) of overlapping applications and systems—and sometimes nearly 200\. As but one example, Zoom, MS Teams, and Webex are viable videoconferencing options. Don't get me started on the vast array of task-management tools.

Once a firm lands on a magnet app, however, the question shifts. It becomes: Where in \[insert name of tool\] should we put X?

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That's not to say that people don't make honest mistakes while using [Notion](https://notion.grsm.io/philsimon?ref=philsimon.com), Loom, Coda, and other magnet apps. They do. But moving a database, drawing, PDF, document, or other file from one location to another *within the same, universally used app* is simple. Choosing a new tool altogether (and fighting myriad internal battles over the move) is a very different kettle of fish.

[Phil Simon: A Better Way to WorkHubs and spokes in action.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8f/b5/8fb5e321-49a6-4cf5-8a28-c6f6d5417e54/content/images/icon/cropped-newlogo-17.png)Phil Simon![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8f/b5/8fb5e321-49a6-4cf5-8a28-c6f6d5417e54/content/images/thumbnail/3d-1.jpg)](https://www.philsimon.com/blog/collaboration/a-better-way-to-work/)

## Simon Says

Training willing participants to use a tool isn't difficult. Getting everyone to agree upon it in the first place is.