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The Internet Age introduces new models of value creation, disrupting the traditional linear rational patterns and leveraging the power of new, democratic, bottom-up forces. ‘Connecting the dots’ and ‘crowdsourcing’ become two new paradigms of the high-speed connected web environment. Social sciences provide different approaches to the understanding of this new realm via different models of thought: from ‘collective’ to ‘connective’, from ‘emotional’ to ‘cultural’ intelligence. This change requires a new mindset to be developed by institutions and organizations. To this extent, three challenges are provided:
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‘Organizations have to become more Eastern than Western.’
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‘Organizations have to become more woman and less man.’
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‘Organizations have to become more gift-oriented than sell-oriented.’
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© 2012 Donatella Padua
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Padua, D. (2012). New Models of Social Intelligence. In: Trust, Social Relations and Engagement. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230391253_3
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