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The New Groupthink did not arise at
one precise moment. Cooperative learning,
corporate teamwork, and open office
plans emerged at different times
and for different reasons. But the
mighty force that pulled these trends
together was the rise of the World Wide
Web, which lent both cool and gravitas
to the idea of collaboration. On the Internet,
wondrous creations were produced
via shared brainpower: Linux,
the open-source operating system;
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia;
MoveOn.org, the grassroots political
movement. These collective productions,
exponentially greater than the
sum of their parts, were so awe-inspiring
that we came to revere the hive
mind, the wisdom of crowds, the miracle
of crowdsourcing. Collaboration became
a sacred concept—the key multiplier
for success.
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