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A typical blunder that’s made when projects for implementing change are thought to be is to compare the intelligence of the individual members of an organization with the overall intelligence of the organization itself. It would appear that the more smart members that an organization has the more clever the organization would be in an additive or exponential sense. Often, though, the case turns out to be opposite from the expectancy. The emergent intelligence of an organization of folks is less than that of the individual members. This doesn’t bode well for implementing change.

The irony of the matter is that for more basic forms of life, there’s an additive principle for the overall intelligence of organizations. Take, for instance, the activity of ants and ant colonies. An individual ant is able only of an extremely limited set of actions. [**] an ant colony is capable of terribly complex sets of activities such as building or defense. Despite the lack of individual intelligence, when placed into a group situation, ants will naturally fall into arranged and regimented activities. The emergent intelligence of the ant colony is greater than that of an individual ant.

When placed into groups that are implementing change, humans do not adopt networked activity. Likewise, the more intelligent the people involved, the tougher it becomes to make them engage in networked behavior. Maybe this is due to the assertion of individuality, but the final result is that setups of humans tend to respond slowly and ineffectively without the presences of a powerful, organizing intelligence.

essentially, implementing change in setups filled with smart folks is about making better networked behaviors. The individuals need to be brought onboard with the change, often through the intervention of a high ranking executive. This allows the change pro or change team to more successfully manage the comparatively low emergent intelligence of the organization in such a fashion that it’ll implement the changes needed by the project or situation.

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