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FOREWORD TO THE ENGLISH EDITION

There are some books that are of value for being able to summarize some problems that require a specialized technical view. There are books that stand out for their innovation and contribution, and others that are ahead of their time and pose questions for the future. Finally, there are books that manage to interpret the sign of the times and formulate perspectives or tools that are an adaptive response to the current challenges of different disciplines.

It is rare to find a book that is able to bring together the best of these challenges in a single volume. Doing so in a timely manner, in the current difficult times we live in, is a relevant fact that is worth knowing, studying and applying.

The book you are holding in your hands, Collective Intelligence, by Chilean consultant Sergio Vergara, ticks all these boxes. It is the result of mature reflection on specific and long-standing experiences that have transcended the country’s borders.

What emerged as a result of the author’s work with hundreds of organizations and companies of different sizes and complexity, and from different areas of economic activity, and also from his work with the public sector, can today be considered a necessary response to the challenges posed by the social, health and economic crises we’ve been facing for the last two years.

His proposal is so powerful and bold that it translates the best of the economic-business perspectives with the collaborative, dialogical and transformational perspectives that give us new tools for the building of organizational purposes.

Best of all, it provides us with the tools to operate in times of crisis and in the transformation produced by these tools in our organizations and teams.

With deep conviction, but above all with great generosity, this book -originally written in Spanish, in the long strip of the southern part of the American continent called Chile- is a conceptual map and a toolbox that can accelerate the processes of change and systemic transformation that we require.

At times when global citizenship demands new perspectives, when traditional ways of living together, production and working are challenged, at times when the social contract that gave governance to countries, organizations and human groups seems to be under fire and unsuitable to respond to the current times, Collective Intelligence may be the basis of the new modus vivendi of the organizational climate that we urgently need to develop within our institutions.

JORGE SANHUEZA-RAHMER

Dean of Psychology, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

Santiago -Chile, June 2021