collective intelligence 
Boosting collective intelligence with the increased velocity of iterations
Submitted by George Por on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 07:24.Last night, working with a client on co-developing (with the hosting team) the design for the upcoming, Learning Day of her community of practice, I received by email her next iteration of the design, within hours that I sent her mine. Observing the broader implications of our exchange inspired this blog entry.
Corporate Social Responsibility and the global financial crisis
Submitted by George Por on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 08:03.In response to a question about CSR in crisis time, posted in an online forum of an upcoming conference that I co-host, I wrote:
From knowledge “managers” to knowledge “cultivators”: an ecosystem perspective
Submitted by George Por on Wed, 05/06/2009 - 11:32."From knowledge 'managers' to knowledge 'cultivators': The role of system catalysts will be as 'cultivators' or gardeners who adopt an ecosystem-like approach to establishing trust-based connections (through relation-building, normative values, incentives, etc.) between existing stakeholder groups.
Collaboration Campus
None of us is as smart as all of us
If none of you is as smart as your whole group, organisation, or network, then some of the really smart things that you can do is to: create a self-refreshing pool of knowledge resources relevant to your group: let streams of experience and insight flow into the pool; and build easy paths to the knowledge pool.
Catching a glimpse of the future - networked constellations of communities of practice
Submitted by George Por on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 21:31.Only communities of practitioners can assess realistically what work and learning practices add more effectiveness, efficiency, and enjoyment to practicing their profession. As those communities mature, they start taking responsibility for jointly evolving their domain of practice. At that point, they become a central force of production; they move from the fringes of value creation into the heart of it.
Collective Intelligence and Collective Leadership: Twin Paths to Beyond Chaos
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/22/2008 - 16:25.By looking at collective intelligence (CI) through four distinct lenses, this paper draws on recent research in organizational design, evolutionary economics, cognitive sciences, knowledge ecology and political economy to built a twin path forward: collective intelligence and collective leadership. It lays out elements of a framework for building this twin path beyond chaos.
The Intelligence Advantage
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/22/2008 - 13:16.Excerpts from a book "Intelligence Advantage" in which Mike McMaster proposes a new understanding of the way that human beings create
organizations.
Bill Veltrop interview with Mike McMaster
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/22/2008 - 13:07.Bill Veltrop interviews Mike McMaster about his life journey through series of generative questions.
Collective Intelligence as a Field of Multi-disciplinary Study and Practice
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/22/2008 - 12:41.Authors define the collective intelligence in its evolutionary dimension as the essential capacity to address the unprecedented challenges of the 21st century and analyze the spectacular rise of the this meme as a field of study and practice.
Designing for the Emergence of a Global-scale Collective Intelligence
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 05/04/2008 - 14:04.Calling for a large-scale research collaboration to explore the potential of globally distributed intelligence for solving world problems and closing the gap between the human condition and human potential.
Paper presented at the First Global Brain Workshop.