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As new technological innovations, such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence move us further into the Digital Age, we will come to a digital fork in the road. Which path we choose will likely make the difference between whether we create unhealthy surveillance states or highly evolved human networks that promote both healthy individuals and healthy societies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence become an ever present reality in our day-to-day lives, we will be faced with an existential choice about how we organize our societies that may very well determine whether we will live in the most authoritarian centralized social structures the world has ever known or whether we create a highly evolved human society by embracing a very different way to design how we socially organize ourselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NTSB teams don’t filter data to fit their theories; they adapt their theories to fit the facts. They understand that the laws of physics have no regard for the egos and the opinions of experts overly invested in their own thinking. This understanding could greatly improve our social discourse if Big Tech could learn to adopt the mindset of the NTSB. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s business leaders face a daunting and unprecedented challenge: The world is changing much faster than their organizations. If business leaders want their companies to survive and, more importantly, thrive in a fast forward world, they will need the courage to adopt new habits based on radically new ways of thinking and acting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rules are important because they serve as guideposts for reliable social interaction. Rules are practical tools for maintaining order in complex societies. But there are times where the rules should be superseded by a higher principle, especially when you are reasonably sure that it’s the right thing to do and where there’s a clear principle at stake that would be harmed if the rule was followed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if the tech companies redesigned their algorithms to identify what’s most important to differing perspectives by honoring the principle that all voices matter, hearing all points of view without prejudice, and integrating the best elements of all perspectives into innovative breakthrough solutions that could move us beyond our differences? Social media companies have the opportunity, through their digital social platforms, to curate our collective intelligence to produce higher order solutions that no one perspective could ever craft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What would happen if blockchain were the systems structure used by social media? Perhaps we would have the opportunity to revive the hacker ethos of the creative subculture that guided the original pioneers of the digital revolution, and hopefully, leverage this revival to build a better and more collaborative world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the great ironies of the digital revolution is how social media platforms have managed to divide us into a collection of fractious tribes that are wholly incapable of even basic compromises. This fomenting tribalism has become troublesome as mutual accusations of bias among all the various clans have justified a plummet into a lack of basic civil behavior. How is it that technological innovations that held so much promise for broadening human horizons have instead amplified the worst attributes of human nature? But more importantly, what can we do to restore the promise? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, rather than being a model of an innovative company, Google appears to be regressing into one of the most authoritarian companies the world has ever seen by  succumbing to the temptation of centralized power and embracing the worst aspects of bureaucratic behavior. In its regression, the company has left behind its once famous motto as it engages in one of the most evil acts that humans can inflict upon each other: the censorship of the voices of those who think differently. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our theme for this new season is reviving the promise of the digital revolution. Over the past few years, we have witnessed a breakdown in our social discourse that has been accelerated by the expansion of social media into our day-to-day lives. Instead of building new and innovative ways to bring us together, Big Tech has managed to drive us apart into fractious tribes. Over the next ten episodes, we will explore what went wrong with the Digital Revolution and what we can do to restore its promise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this final episode of our second season, we explore a way that business leaders can access the richest and most untapped resource in their organizations: the collective intelligence of their own people. We describe the sequence of activities for leading a Collective Intelligence Workshop, which is a large group process for achieving consensus on how to handle complex problems by rapidly uncovering the common ground and insights needed to craft breakthrough solutions.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What’s most fascinating about collective intelligence is that it inherently corrects for the human biases that plague individual thinking. Even experts have biases, which explains why the best intelligence doesn’t come from the best individual thinkers, but rather from the cogent aggregation of multiple perspectives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How is it that sometimes, when we come together in groups, we are extraordinarily brilliant and, at other times, we are incredibly dumb? Whether a group is extraordinarily intelligent often depends upon whether or not four conditions are present. If even one of these four conditions is missing, the opportunity for collective intelligence is lost and the danger of groupthink—or worse yet, a mob--is very real. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transformation is about moving from a caterpillar to a butterfly. The typical human response to fear is usually not transformative. Instead we tend to avoid risk, focus on the short-term, and turn everything into a zero-sum game where we find it hard to trust each other. John Hagel shares insights from his new book, The Journey Beyond Fear, on how we can escape from the hazards of fear and draw on positive emotions to truly transform our lives and businesses in dramatic ways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the coming decade, two transformative events will dramatically change how healthcare works. The connection of all humans and things via a common digital network will accelerate both the quantity and quality of healthcare data. And the proliferation of human collective intelligence via sophisticated artificial intelligence systems will revolutionize how intelligence works in the healthcare system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Because efficient practices are often barriers to adaptability, leaders need to become more agile if they are to respond to the challenges of a rapidly changing world. This means abandoning centuries of conventional wisdom and adopting new rules for building and leading organizations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If business leaders want to effectively solve complex problems, they will need to learn to think differently. They will need to understand that, while experts are valuable voices in discovering solutions, they are not the only voices that matter. Complex problems are best solved by aggregating the collective intelligence of multiple perspectives and avoiding the hazards of experts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The human brain is a paradox. While it is capable of producing highly developed analytical and creative intelligence, it is also prone to make apparently senseless errors. Why is this so? The answer is that people are nowhere near as rational as they think and are incredibly susceptible to unconscious biases that influence human decision-making to a far greater extent than we realize. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Collective intelligence is a powerful tool because it brings together the knowledge of both experts and nonexperts and moves a group to a higher level of intelligence where they can identify creative solutions that no one of us could ever achieve alone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s not easy to detach from outcome, especially if you are absolutely convinced that you know the answer. However, if your goal is to move beyond endless and unproductive debate and get something done that would make a difference in people’s lives, detaching from outcome, understanding different points of view, scaling collective intelligence, and building an emergent shared understanding is far more likely to accomplish the work that needs to be done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our theme for this second season is collective intelligence. Over the next ten weeks, we will learn about the counterintuitive workings of collective intelligence and how business leaders are using the incredible power of this little-known resource to master the challenge of winning in increasingly more complex markets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are at the beginning of an unprecedented inflection point in the development of civilization—the transition from the first human epoch where centralized hierarchies that leveraged individual intelligence were the basis of social organization to the second human epoch whose social structures will be highly sophisticated distributed networks capable of rapidly leveraging human and artificial collective intelligence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Smart people are not immune from human biases, and when they make decisions based on narratives that out of touch with what’s actually happening, the consequences can be drastic. As the context for how humans think and act together rapidly shifts from top-down hierarchies to peer-to-peer networks, and as our social leaders become more proficient in their understanding of how to build and lead networks, we will have the capacity to leverage the extraordinary amplitude and the incredible speed of collective intelligence to move us beyond the hazards of human bias. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The expected dramatic reduction in traditional employment over the next decades doesn’t necessarily mean that work disappears. Work will continue to be an important dimension of day-to-day life, but its context could be radically different as new economic roles are created to allow us to be paid for our contributions to networked activity. The role of the gamer may be a tangible way to effect that change and may become a very lucrative pathway to middle class wealth in the very near future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As machines become more humanlike, we have the opportunity to partner with machines in ways that will greatly accelerate our capacity to learn. A symbiotic relationship that combines the strengths of both humans and machines could usher in a new era of enhanced human learning and intelligence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The continued rapid emergence of the peer-to-peer network as the dominant form of social organization, together with the use of collective intelligence dynamics to shape the development of artificial intelligence systems will ignite an extraordinary leap in the social exercise of human judgment and human decision-making. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blockchain, the technology behind the cryptocurrency known as Bitcoin, is likely the innovation that will end the epidemic of hacking and fraud that plagues our IT systems today. It also promises to go a long way in making sure the benefits of digital transformation significantly outweigh the dangers and that these benefits are shared by all as we continue to discover new ways to create wealth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Despite their best intentions, business leaders struggle to deliver breakthrough innovation. This needs to change if they are to handle what are arguably the two most important economic challenges we will face in the next decade. Both of these challenges are enormous and wickedly difficult to solve because their dimensions are complex and their solutions demand new ways of thinking. Regardless of the difficulty, how we ultimately deal with these two challenges will likely shape our economic future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rapid developments in the Internet of Things are likely to accelerate the digital transformation of business. By connecting every person and everything into a single global network, the IoT will produce extraordinarily intelligent results at incredibly fast speeds and pave the way to a new generation of business and product models. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The natural inclination for networks to harness collective intelligence is what makes distributed networks a powerful form of social organization. The capacity to aggregate and leverage this under-appreciated asset will become increasingly important in a business world transformed by radical change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our theme for this inaugural season is digital transformation. Over the next ten weeks, we will explore what may very well be the most significant socioeconomic revolution in the history of human civilization—a revolution that is radically changing how the world, especially the world of business, works. In this episode, we explore how the rise of distributed networks is rewriting the rules for successfully managing large organizations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices