Another definition of CI. What difference it makes?

I'm invited to design and deliver an executive seminar at the Lucina center ofthe Catholic University of Leuven on boosting CI in organizations. I use new speaking engagements for reviewing some of the distinctions I use, and seeing how they may or may not make sense in the new situation

Doing so, I've just updated for organizational leaders my CI definition as follows. You may want to compare it with the more complete one in the upper left corner, and tell us what do you think of the difference.

We call "collective intelligence" the fit-ness of human groups, small and large, to:

1. Enable their members to reach a fuller potential

2. Co-evolve with their environment toward more complex integrations through mutually supportive relationships and permanent innovation

The response-ability of the practitioners

Reflections on global good news, bad news and the response-ability of the collective wisdom and intelligence fields to both

The good news

Who would have thought that the threat of nuclear confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States will give rise to humankind's most powerful force of production, the Internet, and that a humble initiative of cooperation between a small group scientists will give birth to our global brain, the Web? Yet, that's exactly what happened, creating a potential for our species to evolve towards a civilization of higher complexity, deeper differentiation ad integration, and more compassion and solidarity in action. Here are some of the good news: