What’s the book about?
Enduringly successful companies don’t rely on a genius CEO. They build collective intelligence, systematically empowering everyone to use their brains and apply them to the things that matter most.
The iPhone wasn’t the brainchild of Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet didn’t want to bet on Apple, and Amazon Prime wasn’t Jeff Bezos’ idea. Each of these breakthroughs was sparked by an employee who’d been given the tools, skills and confidence to ask the right questions.
Every company has a vast reservoir of brainpower and it’s your role as a leader to tap into it. In the book we’ll show you how.
Read a sample (PDF)What does the book cover?
Collective intelligence: what is it?
Collective intelligence is when an organisation’s smarts are greater than the sum of its intellectual parts. It powers the most enduringly successful businesses, helping them to grow big and stay nimble. Here you can learn why it works and how to build it.
Learn about collective intelligenceHow can you embed Collective Intelligence in your team?
We’ve developed a methodology – the Question Driven Insight™ (QDI) Principle – to help you build and sustain collective intelligence at scale in your business.
Read about the QDI principleAbout the book’s authors
Jen and Pippa are co-CEOs of Board Intelligence, a mission-led technology firm that works with more than 3,000 organizations globally, from Fortune 500s to government departments, helping them to unleash their collective intelligence.
After starting their careers in strategy consulting (Jen) and financial services (Pippa), they met in a coffee shop in London in 2009 and started Board Intelligence a few months later. Today, they are regular speakers at conferences and events and award-winning entrepreneurs, having been named EY London Entrepreneur of the Year and The Times Young Business Woman of the Year.
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Could Socrates have saved Kodak?
Why asking the right questions matters in business, and how to do it. Do you think the folks who ran Kodak in the 1970s were stupid?
What can a 1,400-year-old carpenter teach you about agility?
In 578 BCE, Japan’s Prince Shotoku invited a trio of Korean carpenters to build his country’s first Buddhist temple, Shitenno-Ji.
Communication: the hard truth about this soft skill
Most of us have some first-hand experience of the dysfunction that occurs when business communication is poor. Managers aren’t clear about who needs to do what and when.
How to craft an Executive Summary that hooks readers from the start
The executive summary is the secret to a great board and management paper, and done well it will get your reader on your side from the start.