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BusinessWeek
June 21, 2004
Christopher Farrell |
Heeding The Herd Instinct "The Wisdom of the Crowds" by James Surowiecki discusses why the many are smarter than the few and how collective wisdom shapes business, economies, societies, and nations.   |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 8, 2004 |
Readers Respond: Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership? Readers respond to a question about leadership based on Surowiecki's book "Wisdom of Crowds." But this "crowd" of readers failed to find consensus. |
The Motley Fool
September 14, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Foolish Book Review: "The Wisdom of Crowds" James Surowiecki's book is a fun, thought-provoking read that puts forth a theory that could have very important implications in business, investing, and the direction of the Internet these days. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 1, 2004
Jim Heskett |
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership? Are large groups of reasonably informed and motivated people able to make better decisions than a small group of experts? |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 29, 2004
Jim Heskett |
Summing Up: The Wisdom of Crowds: A Referendum on Leadership? Should the book, "The Wisdom of Crowds," influence our thinking about leadership? |
The Motley Fool
June 24, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Wisdom in Numbers When it comes to money and more, lots of heads are better than one. In The Wisdom of Crowds, author James Surowiecki says that when people work together, they can often accomplish much more than a small group of experts can. Crowds can help with investing, too. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 4, 2010
Jim Heskett |
What's the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions? Michael Mauboussin, with his book Think Twice, suggests that businesses place too much emphasis on intuition and personal experience as opposed to the "wisdom of crowds," mathematical models, and systematically-collected data. |
The Motley Fool
December 18, 2006
Jack Uldrich |
The Wisdom of Employees The growing use of internal prediction markets could offer companies a strategic advantage. |
CRM
August 29, 2010
Scott Brave |
The Social Work of Social CRM Collective intelligence can find a needle in a haystack. |
Wired
June 23, 2008
Josh McHugh |
Quiz: What Should You Really Fear? Canadian journalist Dan Gardner warns us to start second-guessing both the media-driven popular consensus and our instincts. |
Search Engine Watch
July 15, 2009
Andy Atkins-Kruger |
Can Crowd Sourcing Deliver Effective International SEO? Crowd sourcing evolved from the open source movement and is based on the idea that there's greater wisdom in crowds. This approach has been used by many, including Google, but is particularly popular with social networks. |
CIO
December 1, 2006
C.G. Lynch |
MIT Puts Its Mind to Collective Intelligence MIT has launched its Center for Collective Intelligence to study how individuals harness technology to act intelligently. |
The Motley Fool
October 4, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Media's Social Disruption Amazon.com and Borders are both holding literary contests to mine for new talent. |
Salon.com
March 18, 2002
King Kaufman |
Hit the road The NCAA Tournament's new "pod" system works just fine, but it needs an adjustment to prevent this weekend's "home" games... |
Inc.
September 2006
David H. Freedman |
What's Next: The Idiocy of Crowds Collaboration is the hottest buzzword in business today. Too bad it doesn't work. |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2005
Bill Mann |
The Probability Curve You can make a perfectly good investing decision and still lose, and you can make a decision based on absolutely nothing and still do great. The thing is that over the long term, those who make good, sound decisions ensure that they are taking advantage of "market discrepancies." |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 6, 2009
Jim Heskett |
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World? It is becoming clear that human behavior is much less rational than we assumed. What does this mean for conventional wisdom in areas such as management? |
PC Magazine
July 11, 2007
Erik Rhey |
Future Watch: Geosimulation New computational model can assist public safety and health officials in managing crowds. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2005
Michael B. Horwitz |
Mob Mentality Are your financial advisory clients behaving wisely, or are they just following the herd? |
CIO
March 25, 2010
Kim S. Nash |
Why Crowdsourcing Isn't Always Wise Jaron Lanier, the futurist and virtual reality pioneer, thinks technology decisions shouldn't be made collectively. |
