Yoda: You Nation’s IQ Matters More

Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

yoda with light saberWhy your nation’s IQ matters more than your own

We know that intelligence matters at the level of the individual, impacting performance in school, work, and life. Decades of research supports that point. But what if your personal intelligence level doesn’t matter as much as the average level of intelligence of the country in which you live? This is what economist Garett Jones of George Mason University calls the “paradox of IQ” in his new book Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own.

Phi Beta Iota: A great deal goes into creating a “Smart Nation.” We have not done anything in this direction since the first article appeared in 1996.

See Also:

Steele, Robert. “SPECIAL FEATURE: Creating a Smart Nation–Strategy, Policy, Intelligence, and Information,”  Government Information Quarterly, pp. 159-173

 

Leila Janah: Davos – 5 Tech and Impact Trends

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence
Leila (Chirayath) Janah
Leila (Chirayath) Janah

Davos: It’s Not Enough to do Less Bad (5 Tech and Impact Trends)

Here are five key tech and social impact trends from this year’s Forum:

  1. It’s not enough to do less bad.
  2. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is the way leaders will talk about tech.
  3. Impact bonds and pay-for-outcomes models will dominate global social sector funding.
  4. “Stakeholder capitalism” is no longer niche; it’s mainstream.
  5. Safe harbor provisions would allow tech platforms to innovate around labor.

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Ty Simpson: Colorado Town Saves Itself with Cannabis

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence
Ty Simpson
Ty Simpson

Tiny Colorado town turns to cannabis

Developers are poised to break ground on a project that could make a tiny southern Colorado town one of the nation's largest producers of legal marijuana. The town of Walsenburg this month formally closed a $1.33 million deal with a developer to build a 332-acre campus for cannabis growing, processing and distribution, with the marijuana to be trucked 160 miles north to consumers in metro Denver.