I started this blog soon after The Age of Engagement morphed into a flood of 

ideas on how “we” can accomplish more together. Here are the books I’ve mentioned and authors I have interviewed. Crowdsourcing (Jeff Howe), Here Comes Everybody Clay  Shirky), groundswell (Charlene

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From Jake, the wine bar owner to free samples provider, Aliza Freud, individuals are collaborating on ways to tap the collective intelligence.  They become more successful and savor their work – with others. Avoid GroupThink. Adapt one of their methods to your situation.
Visit Elance, crowdSPRING and elsewhere to ask the crowd for help.
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Don’t talk about sex, politics or religion. Remember that advice? What happens now 

that Muslims, Jews and Christians and others around the world are invited to contribute to a Charter for Compassion? To collaborate and come to group decisions. Aided by social media tools.  No anonymity for nasty

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Today many New Yorkers were given the faux-copies of The New York Times with that banner headline.  Other stories concocted by this liberal cadre of volunteers announced that universities would now be free to attend, ex-secretary apologizes for W.M.D scare and Thomas Friedman was resigning.  Even the ads are fake. Unlike the Onion, the issue [...]

Former Medronic chair and True North author, Bill George believes companies and non-profits thrive by adopting the “we” approach that enabled Obama to win.  (Working on the campaign I know, first-hand, how powerfully efficient and satisfying such “we” experiences can be.) George offers these lessons,

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…whose most exotic fantasies involve G.A.O. reports, but deep down, I have dreams,” wrote David  Brooks.

In his column, he delivered the money quote of the week for me: “Walking into the Obama White House of my dreams will be like walking into the Gates Foundation. The people there will be ostentatiously pragmatic and

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What do I mean? See this very short Me2We-style story shot by Jason van Genderen. On his cell phone video camera.  

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Neuroscientist, Tania Singer and her team recruited volunteers to play a game. Some were asked to play by the rules. Others were instructed to ignore them. To not play fair.

After all participants played the game together, they were then asked to observe each other in a second activity. Scientists measured some of the volunteers’ brain activity [...]

For nine years Jake ran a lively, lucrative downtown wine bar. From movie-themed “Nights of Flights” wine tastings to cash flow-by-month analysis he knew his business inside out. But he got tired of managing people.  He wanted a change. One that would leverage all that he’d learned.  Sound familiar?  So he did a very smart thing. 

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