If You Love Your Idea, Let It Go

How to release control when collaboration changes everything

Ross McCammon
Forge
Published in
2 min readFeb 16, 2021

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When my agent and I were meeting with publishers, pitching them my book, Works Well With Others, the working title was The Impostor’s Protocol.

It sounds like a lesser John le Carre novel, I know. But in my head, that was my book. I felt like something of an impostor in my career…

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Ross McCammon
Forge
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Author, Works Well With Others: Crucial Skills in Business No One Ever Teaches You // writing about creativity, work, and human behavior, in a useful way