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province of a single mind actually require
a crowd,” muses Clay Shirky in
his influential book Here Comes Everybody.
Even “Michelangelo had assistants
paint part of the Sistine Chapel
ceiling.” (Never mind that the assistants
were likely interchangeable, while
Michelangelo was not.)
The New Groupthink is embraced by
many corporations, which increasingly
organize workforces into teams, a practice
that gained popularity in the early
1990s. By 2000 an estimated half of all
U.S. organizations used teams, and
today virtually all of them do, according
to the management professor Frederick
Morgeson. A recent survey found
that 91 percent of high-level managers
believe that teams are the key to success.
The consultant Stephen Harvill
told me that of the thirty major organizations
he worked with in 2010,
227/929