As social media and technologies continue to disseminate and evolve, making it easier for everyone to connect with everyone else, to communicate and collaborate in ways we’ve only started to anticipate, swarm intelligence may become the norm rather than the exception. As that happens, the best leader may find themselves turning for advice to the true experts in self-organization–not the ones in the boardroom, but those in the grass, in the air, in the lakes, and in the woods.

via Guest Insights: Smart swarms: The power of self-organization – Peter Miller.