Mar 24, 2014
Organizations, on the other hand, clearly can and should have people offer their judgments simultaneously, rather than one after the other. On a deeper level, the success of the Hung and Plott experiment – which effectively forced the people in the group to make themselves independent – underscores the value and the difficulty of autonomy. One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.
James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds, 65.