The growing value of group intelligence. The last few months have seen some fascinating studies and discussions on the intelligence of groups and how it contributes to team creativity and problem solving. In January, Leslie Brokaw posted a blog on the MIT Sloan Management Review titled “Madness of Crowd or Wisdom of Groups“. The article points to some very interesting [...]
Lexis Nexis published the results of their 2010 International Workplace Productivity Survey last month that reveals the extent and impact of information overload on workers’ productivity and morale around the world. The survey of 1,700 white collar workers in five countries – the United States, China, South Africa, United Kingdom and Australia – found professionals [...]
Like many other business professionals faced with the information overload – we adopted a few typical strategies that made sense: Select a few favorite news and blog sites to visit on a regular basis and set up alerts in readers and social streams to aggregate everything else. Join online groups in our areas of interest [...]
Simply put, we are inundated by new business-related information on the Web – each day there’s new content from news articles and blog posts to web sites to social media streams. You name it; we track it – information about our industry and our profession including new and existing trends, companies, practices, events, announcements, thought [...]
