Duane Elgin expands on the topic of the ‘Living Universe’ and what how recognizing the universe as ‘alive’ can have profound effects.

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‘Competitive Success Depends on Enablement‘ doesn’t specifically mention Collaborative Intelligence but the concept of spreading ‘enablement’ throughout the team structure certainly could also be a description of how CQ is developed within business.
(from the article) ‘Among the conclusions the study reaches are:

The more a company empowers its employees to make decisions, the more likely [...]

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If you needed proof that there is such a thing as collaborative intelligence - you only have to take a peek at how our bodies coordinate themselves. This excerpt from Ervin Laszlo’s ‘Science and the Akashic Field‘ makes the point much better than I could.
‘In a complex organism the challenge of order is gigantic. [...]

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Anyone who read my book ‘Teaching an Anthill to Fetch‘ will know that I have a fondness for these little critters. In my view they offer a promise of how selfless we may actually become as a species- given enough time. An article in the NY Times is a fascinating peek into the ways [...]

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Anyone reading this blog for a while will have realized that I am very curious about how we can ‘get clever together’. There is no doubt that social book-marking is enabling us to do just that. It is one of the aspects of web 2.0 that is so fascinating to a guy who cares about [...]

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Getting Clever Together: 10 Ways to Build Greater Team Collaboration
Individually we humans are the smartest creatures on earth. Or at least we like to think so. You notice I said individually. However, sometimes when working together we produce far-from-perfect results.
Throughout history, we have pulled off amazing feats as a result of [...]

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Tripped over this piece about a course at Stanford that focuses on changes in the business and learning environment and more specifically with the new possibilities that web 2.0 is opening up. From the course description:
Under this new model teaching becomes a multi-directional street where new social media are quietly replacing older tools with [...]

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Our increased demand for strong leadership in others expresses a desire for others to assume the ownership and responsibility for our group, our organization, and our society.
Peter Block
Peter’s quote brings us to an important question: When is ‘weak’ leadership a good thing? When we hear someone described as a ’strong leader’ what does it [...]

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Lego is one of the most respected toy manufacturers in the world. In fact they are also the worlds fourth largest manufacturer. But that is not what makes them so fascinating from a collaborative point of view. A team of specially trained facilitators are using the Lego blocks to help their corporate clients build models [...]

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