Martin Boon of ICM Unlimited, who pioneered this "wisdom of crowds" approach, explained: "Most people will have an inkling about how friends and relatives will vote, and in aggregate these impressions may count for more than individuals' sometimes less-than-clear sense of their own intentions.
The latest conventional wisdom, pioneered partly by G.M.'s highly efficient Brazilian subsidiary, says that productivity improves when suppliers assemble large sections of cars, like dashboards, instead of shipping crates of speedometers, radios and other parts to be bolted together on the factory floor.
This approach is the opposite of the prevailing educational wisdom, famously pioneered by Mossbourne Academy in Hackney, east London, that what kids like those in Zafirakou's class need is not silly ideas about freedom and creativity, but old-fashioned structure, discipline and academic rigour.
Learning from the past, from the wisdom of pioneers, is crucial for future generations.
Citing his own in experiences in going against all conventional wisdom in the pioneering creation of Grameen Bank in his native Bangladesh--the forerunner of what is now a multibillion-dollar worldwide trend in microlending--Yunus said such businesses have a fundamentally different philosophy than conventional companies that see their prime obligation as the maximization of profit.
One cure for this haemorrhaging of corporate wisdom is being pioneered by the Welsh Assembly Government's Public Service Management Wales (PSMW), which runs coaching and mentoring programmes across the Welsh public sector.
Your classmates are duly impressed with your desire to pioneer through the frontiers of wisdom and become distressed at the commonplace nature of their own masterpieces.
"We didn't think of ourselves as pioneers at the time," says Wisdom, "we just went rallying.
Founders, Wisdom at Work, Pioneers in Mindfulness, Collective Wisdom, Contemplative Science Movements.
She offered vivid wisdom from an earlier pioneer: The best advice I've seen came from Eleanor Roosevelt, who said that women in politics or in public roles should grow skin like a rhinoceros.
Her studies led her to the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, where in the 1980s she joined several other prominent psychologists on the Berlin Wisdom Project, helping to pioneer the field of wisdom studies.
