The Courage of Wise Crowds to Collaborate

Albert Einstein said that it takes very smart people to solve problems, but it takes wise people to prevent them. This vlog is drawing the distinction between the expertise in individuals we typically value in business and society and the wisdom that is in "the commons". Karl Hendrick-Robert of the Natural Step calls the drilling down of expertise in individuals reductivism if there is no collaboration amonst the experts. It is high time corporations, ngos, all levels of government, international institutions start working together - or we will draw the same fate of the Mayans.