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Standing among the afterguard of a Volvo Ocean Racing boat in the heat of competition is to witness an exercise in collective leadership. Here on ABN AMRO One, nicknamed Black Betty during the Portsmouth in-port race, June 2006, we’re cutting through the waves at 26 knots before making the slickest of gybes in a 35-knot gust of wind. The gust is enough to shred the spinnaker of the leading boat, Pirates of the Caribbean, just a few seconds ahead.
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer (1902–83)
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Notes
Sandy Pepper, Senior Executive Reward, Key Models and Practices, Gower 2006, p. 30.
Pepper, in turn, sourced the experiment to James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds: Why so Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, Little, Brown, 2004.
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Donkin, R. (2010). Leadership, Teamwork and Collaboration. In: The Future of Work. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230274198_10
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