Collaborative Intelligence Quotes

“The most significant gift our species brings to the world is our capacity to think. The most significant danger our species brings to the world is our inability to think with those who think differently.”
― Dawna Markova, Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently

“The realization that you cannot be good at everything makes this possible; you will come to realize how much you truly need others to extend your reach. HOW”
― Dawna Markova, Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently

“The fact that we are different doesn’t mean that one of us is wrong. It just means that there’s a different kind of right. —Faith Jegede When”
― Dawna Markova, Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently

“Market share determines who is right and who is wrong. Mind share asks what is possible. This”
― Dawna Markova, Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently

“One thing that distinguishes a boss from a leader is the ability to suspend belief and disbelief so that innovations and new processes will have a chance to emerge.”
― Dawna Markova, Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently

“key intentional questions: • What is most important to you about this? • What is surprising to you right now? • What is inspiring you? • What is challenging you?”
― Dawna Markova, Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently

“We habitually misread people and therefore miscommunicate with them. We blame and belittle one another and ourselves because we have not been trained to notice the effect we have on one another or to fluidly shift the ways we communicate to accommodate others. We take for granted that intelligence occurs within our own minds. We don’t realize that it also occurs between us. What keeps us from communicating effectively is that most of us don’t know how to think with people who think differently than we do.”
― Dawna Markova, Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently

“we must learn how to think collaboratively and innovatively.”
― Dawna Markova, Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently

“Humans can no longer afford to think in division and darkness. Collaborative intelligence is the light that is necessary for our individual and collective survival. We have no choice now but to think together.”
― Dawna Markova, Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently

“GREAT MINDS DON’T THINK ALIKE … BUT THEY CAN LEARN TO THINK TOGETHER!”
― Dawna Markova, Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently

“but I had to find out if the desire to be a leader was stronger than his habit of being a boss.”
― Dawna Markova, Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently