Swarm Leadership and the Collective Mind: Using Collaborative Innovation Networks to Build a Better Business

Peter A. Gloor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA


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Hardback
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9781787142015
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Emerald Publishing Limited
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280 pages - 152 x 229mm
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This book helps you to become the leader of your own swarm by building its collective consciousness. A successful swarm business channels the competitive energies of all stakeholders towards collaboration. The journey from homo competitivus to homo collaborensis starts with recruiting and building an intrinsically motivated group of early enthusiasts, the Collaborative Innovation Network. These teams of homo collaborensis combine the four principles of social quantum physics to create collective consciousness: empathy that builds entanglement, and reflection that leads to personal reboot and refocus. Once the team is operational, its collaboration can be tracked and boosted using the "six honest signals of collaboration", patterns of collaboration, which will further increase the performance of the swarm. The six honest signals are central leadership, rotating leadership, balanced contribution, responsiveness, honest sentiment, and shared context. These concepts are illustrated with examples from leading organizations based on decades of research by the author at MIT, ranging from the creation of the Web, Uber and Airbnb to Fortune 500 high tech firms and healthcare organizations.

1. Introduction2. Foundations of Swarm Leadership3. The Physical Layer: Collective Consciousness4. The Networking Layer: COINs5. The Signal Layer: Six Honest Signals of Collaboration6. The Ethical Layer: Five Laws7. The Collaboration Layer: From Homo Competitivus to Homo Collaborensis8. Becoming a Collaborative Individual9. Becoming a Collaborative Organization10. Building a Collaborative SocietyBiographyReferencesIndex
Peter A. Gloor is Research Scientist at the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT’s Sloan School of Management where he leads a project exploring Collaborative Innovation Networks. He is also Founder and Chief Creative Officer of software company galaxyadvisors, a Honorary Professor at University of Cologne, Distinguished Visiting Professor at P. Universidad Católica de Chile, and Honorary Professor at Jilin University, Changchun, China. Earlier, he was a partner with Deloitte and PwC, and a manager at UBS. He got his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Zurich and was a Post-Doc at the MIT Lab for Computer Science. In his spare time, Peter likes to work on projects bridging the digital divide, enjoy nature, and play the piano.
“Peter’s research at MIT and elsewhere, made accessible in this book, is without doubt going to stretch the mind of many executives searching for new keys to leadership and competitiveness in a hyper connected, and data rich world.” - Gianni Giacomelli, Chief Innovation Officer - Genpact

“Collective minds to generate transformational outcomes is the most effective way for organizations to fight irrelevancy and compete to win. Peter has masterfully depicted proven techniques to increase creativity & collaboration in organizations in this book on Swarm Leadership.” - Vinit Verma, Manager Data & Analytics - ExxonMobil

“Peter Gloor’s insights into the nature of collaborative innovation and leadership of collaborative networks have had a profound influence on the work of bringing network organizational models to life in health care. His ideas have been a touchstone for reflection and learning. The book will serve as a practical guide for anyone interested in applying these concepts.” - Peter Margolis, Co-Director - James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

“Grounded by years of the author’s research at MIT and elsewhere, this book explains how the social physics of interaction shapes our collective mind and how everyone can become a leader of their own swarm.” - Alex (Sandy) Pentland, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences - MIT Media Lab and author “Social Physics”

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