![]() While it is true that flocking requires birds to observe the location of their neighbors in the flock, Adrienne oversells its relevance to human collaboration given that the flock has, at some level, agreed that flocking is something they all want to do. ![]() As an example, murmuration (flocking of birds as per the cover) is used as a metaphor for collaboration. There are limitations to all metaphors, but in this case, many of them seem to me to be cherry-picking rather than an aid to communication. In addition, my training is in science and I found the reliance on metaphors and quotes from people required a high level of trust that I was reluctant to give. There were a number of issues, among them frequent inclusion of foot notes and the use of quotes from people I have never heard of that I found distracted from the narrative. This book is just not for me and to be honest I gave up on it half way through. ![]()
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