Mulally’s belief in the universal utility of rejecting silos and embracing interdependence is backed up by Sandy Pentland, an MIT professor who studies the effects of information flow on organizations and communities. Looking at very large data sets, Pentland has found that sharing information and creating strong horizontal relationships improves the effectiveness of everything from businesses to governments to cities. His research suggests that the collective intelligence of groups and communities has little to do with the intelligence of their individual members, and much more to do with the
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