Malcolm Ocean's roamblog

August 2nd, 2021

edited 2021-08-02 · open in Roam
  • oh, this is another tweetstorm that could usefully be responded to or subtweeted by my not all positive-sum outcomes are win-wins \ omniwin
    • > Imagine the benefit if an entire group’s perception, thinking, and ideas about how to take action could be immediately available when needed to understand a problem.
    • list of capabilities:
      • > A community’s collective IQ represents the community’s capability for dealing with complex, urgent problems. Some of the capabilities include the ability to:
        • adequately understand problems
        • unearth the best candidate solutions
        • assess resources and operational capabilities and select appropriate solution commitments
        • effectively organize and execute the selected
          approach
        • monitor the progress and be able to adjust rapidly and appropriately to unforeseen complications.
      • nowhere in here is a recognition of the role of conflict. I'd include things like:
        • design solutions that meet needs of diverse groups that may not all be able to talk together, to avoid tug-of-war conflict dynamics
    • > I contend that a strategy for “facilitating the evolution” of our organizations’ collective IQs will be the optimum approach.
      • rather than something more top-down, I guess