June 24, 2011 by Yosh Beier
With all the hopes and promises of open innovation, team-based creativity, and peer-driven collaboration, effective ways to increase collective intelligence are hotly debated. One repeatedly replicated finding is that IQs of individual members don’t correlate with a group’s collective intelligence – measured by its ability to solve complex problems and to make effective decisions. In [...]
April 7, 2011 by Yosh Beier
As recently reported by the New York Times, Google unleashed its analytical power in-house as a part of Google’s management effectiveness project. Putting its data mining experts to work, Google dug through thousands of performance reviews and other forms of data evaluating managers’ effectiveness in its “quest to build a better boss”. (NY Times, Mar-12-2011) [...]