My keynote at the GEO (Grantmakers for Effective Organizations) Learning Conference on June 6, 2011 at the Tremont Grand in Baltimore, MD. Full notes available at: http://packard-foundation-oe.wikispaces.com/GEO+Learning+2011+-+Achieving+Collective+Intelligence

1. Achieving Collective Intelligence A Thinker's Guide on Why We Need to Think Less Eugene Eric Kim <eekim@blueoxen.com> GEO Learning Conference June 6, 2011

2. My Story

3. Actually famous Not quite famous

6. Collective Intelligence

7. 1 + 1 > 2

14. Could you have done this exercise as well or better by yourself ?

15. Could you have done this exercise as well or better with five people here of your choice ?

16. Could you have done this exercise as well or better with any five people of your choice ?

17. How would your answers change if there were 1,000 cards?

18. How would your answers change if there were 1,000,000 cards?

19. 1 + 1 > 10?

20. 1 + 1 > 100?

21. 1 + 1 > 1,000,000?

24. Network Potential Network Friction

25. We Want Reed to Win!

28. The most important capability in a collectively intelligent system is its ability to learn and improve

30. What role could philanthropy play to harness collective intelligence for social impact? Is philanthropy maximizing its own collective intelligence?

31. Vision Is there alignment around a shared vision?

32. Vision Is there alignment around a shared vision? Is there visible feedback of progress towards the vision?

33. Space Is there shared, delightful space in which to connect and work?

34. Space Is there shared, delightful space in which to connect and work? Is the space designed to encourage emergence?

35. Practice Are there rapid feedback loops of action and learning?

36. Practice Are there rapid feedback loops of action and learning? Is the collective adapting quickly and skillfully to change?

37. Philanthropists as Funders Many of the structural challenges with philanthropy are a result of a funder's worldview .

38. Philanthropists as Change Agents

40. Your most powerful tools are your knowledge and your power to convene .

41. Money as Currency

42. Money as Currency

43. Knowledge as Currency

44. Knowledge as Currency

45. How aggressively are you giving away your knowledge?

46. How aggressively are you giving away your knowledge? What's stopping you?

47. It takes courage to act in the face of structural resistance.

48. My Ask

49. Aggressively practice giving away your knowledge.

50. http://packard-foundation-oe.wikispaces.com/

51. Be bold!