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ISBN: 0814427529 0814407935 9780814427521 9780814407936 9780814473986 0814473989 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York
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The secret to getting people to solve difficult problems together? Hope.
Group decision making. --- Collective decision making --- Decision-making, Group --- Decision making
ISBN: 0385503865 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York Random House
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' No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.& & H. L. Mencken' H. L. Mencken was wrong. In this endlessly fascinating book, 'New Yorker' columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are 'smarter' than an elite few, no matter how brilliant& better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future. This seemingly counterintuitive notion has endless and major ramifications for how businesses operate, how knowledge is advanced, how economies are (or should be) organized and how we live our daily lives. With seemingly boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, economic behaviorism, artificial intelligence, military history and political theory to show just how this principle operates in the real world. Despite the sophistication of his arguments, Surowiecki presents them in a wonderfully entertaining manner. The examples he uses are all down-to-earth, surprising, and fun to ponder. Why is the line in which you're standing always the longest? Why is it that you can buy a screw anywhere in the world and it will fit a bolt bought ten-thousand miles away? Why is network television so awful? If you had to meet someone in Paris on a specific day but had no way of contacting them, when and where would you meet? Why are there traffic jams? What's the best way to win money on a game show? Why, when you walk into a convenience store at 2:00 A.M. to buy a quart of orange juice, is it there waiting for you? What do Hollywood mafia movies have to teach us about why corporations exist? 'The Wisdom of Crowds' is a brilliant but accessible biography of an idea, one with important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, conduct our business, and think about our worl
Common good. --- Consensus (Social sciences). --- Group decision making. --- Common good --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Group decision making --- 201 --- AA / International- internationaal --- 651 Maatschappij. Algemeen --- Collective decision making --- Decision-making, Group --- Decision making --- Authority --- General will --- Power (Social sciences) --- Good, Common --- Public good --- Political science --- Justice --- Public interest --- Sociologie: algemeenheden
ISBN: 128229878X 9786612298783 1576758796 9781576758793 157675278X 9781576752784 9781282298781 9781609944117 1609944119 9781576758809 157675880X Year: 2004 Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler,
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A guide to getting projects done. This book shows how to plan for the involvement, how to manage it while it's happening, how to finish it successfully, and how to take away lessons for future opportunities. It is written by four consultants who have headed involvement initiatives for corporations, governments, and non-profits.
Social groups. --- Collective behavior. --- Group decision making. --- Collective decision making --- Decision-making, Group --- Decision making --- Behavior, Collective --- Crowd behavior --- Crowds --- Mass behavior --- Human behavior --- Social action --- Social psychology --- Association --- Group dynamics --- Groups, Social --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Social participation --- Psychology --- Social groups --- Collective behavior --- Group decision making --- Cooperative Behavior --- Decision Making --- Group Processes --- Group Meetings --- Group Process --- Group Thinking --- Group Meeting --- Group Thinkings --- Meeting, Group --- Meetings, Group --- Process, Group --- Processes, Group --- Thinking, Group --- Thinkings, Group --- Sociology --- Citizen Science --- Problem Solving --- Compliant Behavior --- Social Cohesion --- Behavior, Compliant --- Behavior, Cooperative --- Behaviors, Compliant --- Behaviors, Cooperative --- Cohesion, Social --- Cohesions, Social --- Compliant Behaviors --- Cooperative Behaviors --- Social Cohesions --- E-books
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