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Social Physics and Meetings - Sandy Pentland

Written by Brandon Klein | May 27, 2014 2:18:16 PM

“The intelligence of the individuals didn’t matter.

The content didn’t matter.

It was the pattern of how they shared with each other.

If everyone was engaged; if everyone was sharing lots of ideas, acknowledging other ones (sounds really simple!) that gave rise to a collective intelligence that is about as strong as IQ…

…The flow of ideas between people…gives rise to this collective intelligence.

And you can shape it…