Peter Coughlan

IDEO Partner, Transformation Practice
www.ideo.com/thinking/voice/peter-coughlan

In a time when expressions like “wisdom of the crowd” can be shorthand for quick, uninformed group decision-making, The Power of Collective Wisdom gives the world a new vocabulary to distinguish the various states and stages of wisdom, and suggests (through many inspiring stories) how humankind might harness its collective wisdom in order to creatively tackle increasingly complex environmental, social, and economic challenges that have resulted from our collective folly. Finally, a book that thoroughly explores and explains what collective wisdom really is, and shows us how important it will be to harness this wisdom if we hope to survive as a species!