Blog of Collective Intelligence

Fernanda Ibarra is a visionary of virtual communities of practice, who wrote in the Club of Amsterdam Journal "The main source of value creation is shared knowledge and collective intelligence, not land, labour or capital. It is that shift in the basis of value creation, what propelled virtual communities in the limelight as collective players with largely untapped potential for radical innovation."

She has just commented (see below) on my entry about Collective consciousness: a “peer to peer” phenomenon?, which inspired me to learn more about her thinking.

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In my previous entry, I mentioned that I'm working on the design, with Peter Merry, of an EVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP Learning Expedition that we'll launch in September. We say, evolutionary leadership is about the practice of looking at and thinking from the biggest context with the greatest clarity, AND acting to meet the needs of all parts for the good of the whole.

Meeting those needs requires competence in freeing and mobilizing the collective intelligence of the whole. We need to learn enabling and empowering the self-organization of all communities of practice and communities of co-creation involved with the situation. It’s a core competence of evolutionary leaders, that we want to help developing in the Learning Expedition.

Talking about "freeing and mobilizing the collective intelligence", I'd to share with you what a colleague wrote to me in our pre-Basecamp email exchanges:

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In a comment to The emergence of CI, an online experiment, somebody asked this question:

> In other words, is self-awareness a requirement for being a CI?

I choose to respond here, in this entry, as to give more visibility to that question, the importance of which cannot be overestimated.

Continue reading "Is self-awareness a requirement for CI?" »

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