The Power of Collective Wisdom: And the Trap of Collective Folly
Praise forThe Power of Collective WisdomThis book, full of experience-based principles and practices, can help everyone learn how to access the wisdom of groups and communities. Equally important, it can help us avoid the power of collective folly -- and, I might add, collective evil -- of which we have seen too much in our time.-Parker J. Palmer author ofA Hidden Wholeness,Let Your Life Speak, andThe Courage to TeachThe Power of Collective Wisdomgives the world a new vocabulary to distinguish the various states and stages of wisdom.  Finally, a book that explains what collecitive wisdom is, and how to harness this wisdom if we hope to survive as a species!-Peter Coughlan, Partner and Coleader of Transformation Practice, IDEOWisdom appears most readily when we are willing to be together, in patience, acceptance and curiosity. This gift of a book reacquaints us with this fundamental human experience and provides gentle, skilled guidance for how we might encourage wisdom to enter us.-Margaret J. Wheatley, author ofLeadership and the New ScienceandTurning To One AnotherLao Tzu reminds us that anything propelled by wisdom serves the greater good.The Power of Collective Wisdomillustrates the inspirational possibilities available when the health of the larger whole becomes more important than personal agendas. It is practical, instructive, and relevant to our times.-Angeles Arrien, Ph.D. Editor of the anthologyWorking Togetherand author ofThe Four-Fold Way