A review by jessferg
The Smart Swarm: How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making, and Getting Things Done by Peter Miller

1.0

I actually feel angry at this book for wasting my time. I would have been much better off with some E.O. Wilson (who you should read) and whatever boring pop-business writer is hot right now. This is a book full of regurgitated info that offers no insight. Maybe if the author had directed the correlations between animals and humans to moral dilemmas (as he only mentions in the last three pages of his conclusion) instead of dull business processes, the likenesses of his premise (and subtitle) would be more relevant and interesting.

Perhaps I am being overly sensitive but using the deaths of Hajj pilgrims as a comparison to locust swarms just didn't sit right with me, nor did his insights of Hilary Clinton's standing-ovation when receiving an honorary degree at Yale which ended up feeling like underlying political commentary.

Def not recommended.