Entertaining explanations of why crowd observations make sense. The author has great examples and they work.

I enjoyed the book; it demonstrates that intelligence can emerge bottom up. It has some shortcomings, however. It really doesn't go at the mechanisms of *how* intelligence emerges bottom up. Also, my preference would have been to have James Surowiecki read the book (he read the foreword), and not use a voice actor (a bit monotone).

very talkative book, not much substance, the "theories" are reallty hard to verify/falsify because of their general character.
More of anecdotes then proves.

After reading the brief information about the audio book and the positive reviews from the readers I eagerly decided to buy it.
Unfortunately for me, the content is simply not related to my level of reading (listening).
I only listened to halve way, of the first downloaded audio book; therefore I am not in a position to comment much; The little I listened to, it dealt with corporations, government agencies. Unfortunately I did not grasp the over all meaning or relation of the information. It was lengthy and boring to listen to.
I decided to pass on, to listen to my other purchased audio books.
In conclusion, I will definitely leave this audio book to listen to it again, in another more appropriate time, in the future... Maybe then, I will come to understand and appreciate its content.
For now I will have to rate it two stars.

and loaned it out immediately. In fact, it is now with the third reader and I have not seen it since. Surowiecki does a great job of developing his thesis, including an excellent discussion of the lack of feedback loops for experts (or, more accurately, that experts are seldom held--or hold themselves--to account for their predictions, prognostications and recommendations. He also artfully and accurately describes the conditions for independence within the crowd and the cost of not having that independence. This is a vey useful book for consultants, managers whose responsibilities include working with groups and for association professionals. I particularly recommend that "Wisdom of Crowds" and Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink" be read together as the two books really form a strong basis for decision making.

Lots of interesting human behavior info linked in ways you might never have thought about.Well read by the narrator.

First rate, provocative listening. The narrator is a pleasure to listen to. It was sad to reach the end!

Not only is this stuff interesting, it really works. I tested this with some of my friends in guessing various things, like the number of steps from point a to point b. Just amazing... A great lesson about the value of the crowd's wisdom vs. the traditional view of glorifying experts.