Being smart Quote by James Surowiecki

Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

— James Surowiecki

The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox of the…

— James Surowiecki

Smart people tend to know what is happening in a group situation and how to deal with others in the most effective way. They…

— Patrick Lencioni

Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb.

— Gloria Steinem

The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.

— James Surowiecki

The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other. Independence doesn't imply…

— James Surowiecki

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart;…

— Steven Johnson

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

— Dolly Parton

Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of…

— James Surowiecki

Smart people are no different than anyone else. Sometimes they exercise bad judgment, like we all do.

— Judy Smith

For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.

— Michael Shermer

Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.

— James Surowiecki