Honeybee Democracy
The Five Habits of Highly Effective Honeybees (and What We Can Learn from Them): From Honeybee Democracy (Princeton Shorts)
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On important decisions that require widespread commitment for successful implementation, make the decision as a group, either participative or consensus. Enter the process with your own points of view, but be open to having your ideas influenced by others. Be clear whether the final decision is to be made by consensus or by you.
Jim Collins • Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0
Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them. Groups do not need to be dominated by exceptionally intelligent people in order to be smart. Even if most of the people within a group are not especially well-informed or rational, it can still reach a collectively wise decision... See more
James Surowiecki • The Wisdom of Crowds
Decentralization’s great strength is that it encourages independence and specialization on the one hand while still allowing people to coordinate their activities and solve difficult problems on the other. Decentralization’s great weakness is that there’s no guarantee that valuable information which is uncovered in one part of the system will find
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In his book The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt talks about how group communal brains work: If you put individuals together in the right way, such that some individuals can use their reasoning powers to disconfirm the claims of others … you can create a group that ends up producing good reasoning as an emergent property of the so
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