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Last month, five colleagues and I got together at a beautiful beach house in Delaware for a strategic retreat. We sat around a comfy living room surrounded by paper and munchies and together we planned out the next few years of work. When you work as part of a team, you are surrounding an idea from all sides and building something strong together. Nothing replaces that kind of face-to-face collaboration, but we do have technology to help fill in some of the gaps. Email: Let’s start with the obvious. It’s a reflex. We all complain that it’s “broken” and that we’re slaves to it, but it’s still the first method we reach for group collaboration, limited only by how many addresses you can stick in the “To:” field. Email works because it’s a baseline. Everyone has it. You don’t have to worry about who is taking notes. ***