From the course: Collective Intelligence at Work

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Introduction

Introduction

- Schema. Structure information for decision making. When we're looking at information for decision making, it makes sense to give everyone the same information in the same structure at the same time, right? Not really. When it comes to enhancing the collective intelligence of your team, one of the best ways to create maximum quality solutions and ideas is to vary the structure of the information and to give it to different groups of people in different ways. So the worst thing that you can do to prepare a hive mind is send out a big, boring pre-read. Giving people too much information at the last minute is the easiest way to homogenize our thinking rather than improving it. Most of the time, people don't have time to read the pre-read, or they've read it too shallowly. A better way to use the combined intelligence in your team is to split people into smaller groups and curate the information in smaller, more meaningful chunks for them so that everyone gets a far deeper understanding…

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