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Work InformationThe Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations by James Surowiecki (2004)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This struck me as pop management insights: a casual hypothesis with patchy evidence. The examples provided seem cherry-picked, and there is little effort to provide counter-examples or opposing claims. The central idea is worthy of a paper, but the book-length treatment does not build a compelling argument worthy of more than a brief mention in a business studies class. ( ) Another in a long line of books written with that uniquely New Yorker voice - this is like Gladwell but arguably more academic given the focus on business, management, and economics. A fascinating read, made all the more so by the fact that this guy discussed the emergence of a coronavirus twenty years before Covid.
In ''The Wisdom of Crowds,'' James Surowiecki, who writes a column called The Financial Page for The New Yorker, challenges that received wisdom. He marshals evidence from the social sciences indicating that people in large groups are, in effect, better informed and more rational than any single member might be. The author has a knack for translating the most algebraic of research papers into bright expository prose -- though the swarm of anecdotes at times makes it difficult to follow the progress of his argument. New Yorker business columnist Surowiecki enlivens his argument with dozens of illuminating anecdotes and case studies from business, social psychology, sports, and everyday life. What emerges in "The Wisdom of Crowds" is a book that is both clever and slightly tiresome. This work is an intriguing study of collective intelligence and how it works in contemporary society. Surowiecki's style is pleasantly informal, a tactical disguise for what might otherwise be rather dense material.
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HTML: In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant??better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future. With boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, behavioral economics, artificial intelligence, military history, and politics to show how this simple idea offers important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, run our companies, and think about our world. No library descriptions found. |
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