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A podcast sharing insights, innovations & inspiration from the award-winning Women in Tech Summit. Join host Gloria Bell, founder of the Women in Tech Summit and the Inspiring Tech Foundation, as she sits down with the sponsors, speakers and knowledge-seekers of the WITS community to inspire, connect and inform anyone who wants to get to grips with the tech industry.

In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant–better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future...

The Wit and Wisdom of Others is unique collection since it was done by a noted writer and thinker who collected over his lifetime the great thoughts of others, ranging from the Greeks with Socrates and Plato, through the Middle Ages with St. Augustine, to Napoleon, up to the modern age. Writers, dramatists, thinkers, wits, scientists, inventors, politicians, statesman, business people, and all kinds of other thinkers from Louisa May Alcott to Maria Edgeworth, Booker T. Washington to Disraeli.