Organizing Around Intelligence: The New Paradigm (2nd ed)

347 Pages·2009·1.16 MB·English

by  Liang Thow Yick

ORGAN11I NG
AROUND I N T E L L I G E N C E
Second Edition
The New Paradigm
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ORGANIZING AROUND INTELLIGENCE (2nd Edition)
The New Paradigm
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Organizing around individual intelligence
and nurturing collective intelligence with
the right mindset drives a complex
adaptive, self-organizing and sustainable
dynamic that is greatly needed by all
competitive organizations/nations in the
current knowledge-intensive and fast-
changing environment. Inherently, the
entire biosphere and all its sub-systems
are intelligence-centric.
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Preface
Currently, the exploration and exploitation of complexity and
evolution concepts is sinking roots into many universities and
research institutions, and spreading across numerous advanced
nations.The new overwhelming wave manifests itself from the nat-
ural sciences and infiltrates into almost all aspects of humanity
including Medicine, Technology, Economics, Social Sciences,
Education,Politics,Military and National Security.The pivotal com-
plex adaptive dynamic that drives all these systems depends
critically on the intelligence of the individuals and collective intelli-
gence of the system.In this respect,a holistic comprehension and
exploitation of the complex adaptive domain by human organiza-
tions is a new advantage. However, the new endeavor requires a
paradigmatic shift in mindset and thinking.The new mindset is the
intelligence mindset and the new strategy is to organize around
intelligence. Ultimately,the success of intelligence management
is a critical factor for the sustainability of humankind.
Fundamentally,in the fresh context,a human organization should
be perceived as a collection of interacting human minds.The human
mind where intrinsic intelligence of an individual (an intense intelligence
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