Great groups, not great men, do great things

It starts in the family, in our first playground, first school project. Our entire life is made up of navigating different groups’ dynamics. The same applies to the collective human experience. A nation, a World Cup win, a great music album, a major scientific advance…it is all the work of groups, suggests Colin M Fisher in The Collective Edge: Unlocking the Secret Power of Groups.You think Edison invented incandescent light bulbs? Nope, these predate him. He did patent a new versio