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If Coherence At A Group Level Is Essential for Effective Collaboration, How Do We Achieve Group Coherence?

Anna Margolis
2 min readNov 2, 2020

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It’s often said that if we want to create a world where things work very differently from how they’ve worked up until now, it’s going to take tapping into something called “group coherence” and “collective intelligence”.

Group coherence refers to operating as a unified whole.

Coherence at the group level is essential for effective collaboration.

And Collective Intelligence is the shared or group intelligence that emerges from that effective collaboration.

Out at the cutting edges of this conversation, it’s also said that group coherence and collective intelligence are a function of an anti-fragile and anti-rivalrous culture.

But what does this term “Anti Fragile” mean?

And what does it mean to form anti fragile bonds with other people?

And why would you even want to do that?

Anti fragility is the result of being tested and living up to the challenge over and over again.

If you think of something fragile, it breaks easily or is easily damaged.

Whereas something anti fragile is open and adaptable and able to withstand the impact of external…

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Anna Margolis
Anna Margolis

Written by Anna Margolis

As a former lawyer, Anna merges material world memories, tales of transformation and embodied experience in articulating the future of collaboration

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