A New Professional Currency

Collaborative Intelligence (CQ)

Collaborative Intelligence, we define as the measure of our ability to think with those who think differently on behalf of what matters to us all. What it really comes down to and why it’s a new professional currency is that the most significant gift that our species brings to this world is our capacity to think. And yet the most significant danger we have is that we don’t know how to think with those who think differently. And so by exploring the different strategies and our understanding of collaborative intelligence, what we’re inviting the reader to do is expand those who they are capable of thinking with. 

Benchmarking Your Relationships

The brain is unbelievably influenced with those whom you spend the most time. And so we invite you to consider the first three or four people that come to mind that you do spend the most time with, especially in the workplace. And look at that person through the lens of these four aspects. 

And those aspects are: [Growth.] How much are you growing with this person? How much growth do they bring out in you? How much do you bring out in them? Understanding. How much understanding is there between you? How much do you understand them when you have a breakdown? Aliveness. What is your sense of potency when you’re around this person? And the fourth one is respect. And this is really fundamental because, without respect, it’s really hard to want to collaborate with anyone.

So what we invite you to do in this benchmarking assessment is rate people that you work most closely with on a day-to-day basis from 0-5. Zero being a low score, five being a high score.

Shifting to a Mindshare Mindset

Our belief is that we are in a hinge time. We are shifting from what we call a market-share mindset into a mindshare mindset. In a market-share mindset, things carry value. Meaning if I have one thing and I give it away, I’ve lost something. In a mindshare mindset, what happens is ideas carry value. So if I come to you and I have a great idea and you come with one great idea, then we both leave with two more great ideas. That mindshare economy is happening. And one of the fundamental ways in which a mindshare economy grows is by being a leader as a host or a leader as a conductor as opposed to leader as a hero, trying to be the smartest in the room. 

And so in that way, we are really shifting into this concept. And you see it in Airbnb, for example, they don’t own one hotel room. So that’s an explosion of a mindshare economy. And so the more that we can equip ourselves and each other with bringing that diversity in the room and hosting diversity, then the better equipped we are to actually take advantage of all those different ideas that are coming towards us.