Minds+V+Intelligences

JA 7.5.7

We're grappling with writing the article due Monday. After devoting her July 4th holiday to this effort Kiki has summarized her research finds on"connected and collected intelligence".

Today I'm wondering whether our focus is connecting MINDS or INTELLIGENCES?
My limited psychology studies were "some" years ago so bowing to our experts here to help me out.

I've read 100 pages of Dan Pink's [|Whole New Mind] and scanned the rest. Persuasive and though provoking but I can't understand why it was a slog.

My conversation with Nancy White this week evolved into a discussion about how participating in virtual worlds demands complex thinking and how will the next generation function in linear minded traditional industrial organizations? (Paraphrasing so Nancy please refine as needed).

I'm recalling Howard Rheingold's early online business venture was "[|Electric Minds]", a decade plus ago. [|Nancy White was there]: according to a April, 2007 online interview: //**"Nancy White:** I fell down the online rabbit hole in 1996 when I joined Howard Rheingold's "Electric Minds" community as it launched in November, 1996. I was immediately taken by the high level of discourse. It was like the graduate seminar I dreamed of, but never had time to take as a working mom. For the first few months I simply read and soaked it in. Then I had the courage to speak up and became involved in a conversation I shall never forget about how to raise the quality of conversation on the net. "//

No surprize then that Nancy emerged as a top influencer in the [|Online Communities in Business 2004] study Joe Cothrel and I conducted. (See Chapter 4)

Other items driving my thinking about minds and intelligences include:

i. USA Today article (will find link) where a Harvard professor encourages U.S. voters to add "complex minds and thinking" to their criteria for the next president.

ii.Listening to the Tim O'Reilly interview with Steve Hargadon where O'Reilly talks about his experience seeing innovation in the computing industry come from outside traditional disciplines.

iii. And related to this the HBR working paper examining factors in solutions being found to Innocentive challenges. It seems people bringing disciplines beyond the expected and the range of experience within a solver are factors. (Add link.)

Yet Steve Denning is holding seminars introducing the world to "narrative intelligence".

I wonder if we are seeking Whole New Minds and connecting intelligences?

Thoughts anyone? Please.