We are wise when we are humble and good humored. Our human intelligence is but one manifestation of this universal dynamic, and can benefit by tuning in to it and moving with its intrinsic wisdom. I say this not as a rhetorical question. It is an alive inquiry, one of the most important questions we face. A corporation's effectiveness is increased when its collective intelligence is increased.
Corporations are arguably the most powerful force shaping the future of humankind.
Not only do they have a direct effect on the health of communities and ecosystems, but they shape the dynamics and content of entire cultures, including the ability of every society to exercise its collective intelligence. If not, then these conditions sustain the ability of corporations and other organized special interests to become parasites or cancers in the body-mind of society. They can cripple our societal intelligence, with predictably disasterous results. We need to be mindful that our efforts to enhance the operation of corporations can easily enhance their ability to undermine human communities, local economies, national politics and natural ecosystems. One approach is to only enhance the collective intelligence of corporations whose social and environmental practices are benign, or who are trying to make them so.