You are also spot on with your thought about aggregation. It is a powerful skill that will likely become a necessity of leadership now and far into the future.

Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts!

Do you really think what separated those celebrated as singular artistic geniuses in times past was that they had unique access to ideas and information? If what you’re suggesting is that this access itself is the key to creating a masterpiece, then the IQ of the person who has it doesn’t matter that much; just that they have the access. And if individual intelligence or genius or whatever you want to call it DOES matter, then the democratization of access to ideas/information in the present day also won’t change the paradigm – those with those special talents will take the same flow of ideas and create something exceptional. Do you mean perhaps that we’re seeing the end of the singular artistic vision (in which the team exists mostly to execute it, or provide input that the great man/woman synthesizes – e.g. David Chase and the Sopranos)? Are you suggesting a fundamental cultural shift?

If anything, I would think the democratization of access to information and tools that can manipulate data/images/text raises the status not so much of collaboration as aggregation – whoever gets control of the aggregation of crowd-sourced output is the true giant of our age.