The Power Of Collective Wisdom

Author : Alan Briskin
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1605095753
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Collective Wisdom written by Alan Briskin and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2009-10-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An exceptional work challenging leaders to question their assumptions about how to achieve organizational excellence . . . a new narrative for leading.” —Carol Pearson, author of The Hero Within If we are to disentangle the extraordinary challenges that we face today in organizations, communities, and nations we must transcend our divisions and develop solutions together. But what enables us to collectively make wise choices and sound judgments instead of splintering apart? When human beings gather together, a depth of awareness and insight, a transcendent knowing, becomes available. Based on nine years of research The Power of Collective Wisdom shows how we can tap into the extraordinary cocreative potential that exists in every group. Collective wisdom is elusive and unpredictable—it can’t be willed into being, but the authors describe six commitments people can adopt that will increase the likelihood of its appearing. Stories and historical examples throughout serve to illuminate and illustrate how collective wisdom has emerged in a range of settings and through the lives and traditions of varied cultures. Equally important, the authors describe how to recognize the pitfalls of polarization or false agreement, either of which can lead to collective folly—a phenomenon with which recent history has made us all too familiar. And they offer a set of practices to help readers maintain the key lessons of the book. The Power of Collective Wisdom is a foundational book for an emerging field of study and practice relevant to everyone seeking more effective and satisfying ways of working with others. “This book takes knowledge about groups and elevates it to a field and a movement.” —Peter Block, author of Community and Stewardship

Author : Alan Briskin
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1576754456
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Collective Wisdom written by Alan Briskin and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2009-10-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories and historical examples throughout this work serve to illustrate how collective wisdom is emerging in a range of settings and how, if accessed, this collective knowing can create extraordinary results.

Author : Alan Briskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780369323569
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Collective Wisdom and the Trap of Collective Folly (16pt Large Print Edition) written by Alan Briskin and published by . This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspired and practical approach to developing the innate power of groups to make wise, compassionate, and creative decisions Based on nine years of research involving scores of participants Includes real-life examples and specific practices to help readers understand and cultivate collective wisdom and avoid collective folly If we are to disentangle the extraordinary challenges that we face today in organizations, communities, and nations we must transcend our divisions and develop solutions together. But what enables us to collectively make wise choices and sound judgments instead of splintering apart? When human beings gather together, a depth of awareness and insight, a transcendent knowing, becomes available. Based on nine years of research The Power of Collective Wisdom shows how we can tap into the extraordinary cocreative potential that exists in every group. Collective wisdom is elusive and unpredictable it cant be willed into being, but the authors describe six commitments people can adopt that will increase the likelihood of its appearing. Stories and historical examples throughout serve to illuminate and illustrate how collective wisdom has emerged in a range of settings and through the lives and traditions of varied cultures. Equally important, the authors describe how to recognize the pitfalls of polarization or false agreement, either of which can lead to collective folly a phenomenon with which recent history has made us all too familiar. And they offer a set of practices to help readers maintain the key lessons of the book. The Power of Collective Wisdom is a foundational book for an emerging field of study and practice relevant to everyone seeking more effective and satisfying ways of working with others.

Author : Grace Bonney
Publisher : Artisan
ISBN 13 : 1648291112
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collective Wisdom written by Grace Bonney and published by Artisan. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: POWERFUL WISDOM FROM THE ELDERS OF OUR COMMUNITIES In this rich and multilayered collection of interviews, conversations, and intimate photographs, over 100 trailblazing women describe the ups, downs, and lessons learned while forging their unique paths. Collective Wisdom celebrates the stories of those who have been there and know the road—from an Olympic athlete and a NASA team member to award-winning artists, activists, writers, and filmmakers, from women in their fifties to centenarians. It is also a tribute to the importance of intergenerational connections between women, with interviews conducted by daughters, friends, mentors, and colleagues. Collective Wisdom creates a living, breathing sense of community—a space where all of us can gather, listen, share, and learn.

Author : Alan Briskin
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780495599968
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Collective Wisdom and the Trap of Collective Folly written by Alan Briskin and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan Briskin
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1576759008
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Collective Wisdom written by Alan Briskin and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories and historical examples throughout this work serve to illustrate how collective wisdom is emerging in a range of settings and how, if accessed, this collective knowing can create extraordinary results.

Author : Alan Briskin
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1605096164
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stirring of Soul in the Workplace written by Alan Briskin and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for those who'd like to find more meaning in their jobs, "The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace" offers ways to balance a personal spiritual path with job realities and expectations.

Author : James Surowiecki
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307275051
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wisdom of Crowds written by James Surowiecki and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2005-08-16 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future. With boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, behavioral economics, artificial intelligence, military history, and politics to show how this simple idea offers important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, run our companies, and think about our world.

Author : Satnam Alag
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 163835538X
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collective Intelligence in Action written by Satnam Alag and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a great deal of wisdom in a crowd, but how do you listen to a thousand people talking at once? Identifying the wants, needs, and knowledge of internet users can be like listening to a mob. In the Web 2.0 era, leveraging the collective power of user contributions, interactions, and feedback is the key to market dominance. A new category of powerful programming techniques lets you discover the patterns, inter-relationships, and individual profiles-the collective intelligence--locked in the data people leave behind as they surf websites, post blogs, and interact with other users. Collective Intelligence in Action is a hands-on guidebook for implementing collective intelligence concepts using Java. It is the first Java-based book to emphasize the underlying algorithms and technical implementation of vital data gathering and mining techniques like analyzing trends, discovering relationships, and making predictions. It provides a pragmatic approach to personalization by combining content-based analysis with collaborative approaches. This book is for Java developers implementing Collective Intelligence in real, high-use applications. Following a running example in which you harvest and use information from blogs, you learn to develop software that you can embed in your own applications. The code examples are immediately reusable and give the Java developer a working collective intelligence toolkit. Along the way, you work with, a number of APIs and open-source toolkits including text analysis and search using Lucene, web-crawling using Nutch, and applying machine learning algorithms using WEKA and the Java Data Mining (JDM) standard. Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

Author : Hélène Landemore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107010330
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collective Wisdom written by Hélène Landemore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume discuss and for the most part challenge whether many minds can be wiser than one.