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Collective-cognition-exceeds-individual pattern: the

Collective-cognition-exceeds-individual pattern: the structural tendency for team cognitive processes — shared attention, distributed memory, collaborative reasoning — to produce outcomes that no individual member could achieve alone, making team design a cognitive architecture problem

Why This Is a Pattern

Exemplifies An organization's communication structure determines the (communication structure) and Most organizational outcomes are products of system design, (system design). Recurs in research teams, surgical teams, product development, jazz ensembles.

Source Lessons

L-1601

Teams think collectively

A team is not just individuals — it has collective cognitive processes that can be designed and improved.

Connections

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AxiomAn organization's communication structure determines the AxiomMost organizational outcomes are products of system design,

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