How Peer-to-Peer Networks Will Surpass the Best CEO Driven Companies
What if your smartest move as a leader is to stop trying to be the smartest person in the room? Join me on A New Direction with Coach Jay, as I sit down with Rod Collins, author of Nobody Is Smarter than Everybody: Why Self-Managed Teams Make Better Decisions and Deliver Extraordinary Results. We’re diving into the playbook that replaces top-down control with collective intelligence through peer-to-peer teams—and shows why the crowd, when organized well, consistently outperforms the lone hero.

In this conversation, you’ll discover the seven power shifts of peer-to-peer networking teams: from hierarchy to networks, meetings to real-time cycles, opinions to evidence, secrecy to radical transparency, bottlenecks to distributed decision-making, rigid plans to rapid iteration, and compliance to shared ownership. If you lead a business, a sales team, or a creative squad, you’ll walk away with practical ways to unlock faster decisions, higher accountability, and outcomes your competition can’t match.

We’ll get tactical. How do you set clear decision rights without a bossy org chart? What metrics matter when peer-to-peer teams manage themselves? How do you replace status meetings with continuous, visible workflows? Rod will break down through real life examples that you can deploy this week—think peer commitments, short feedback loops, and “the few rules that create a lot of freedom.” Expect examples, frameworks, and step-by-step moves you can test immediately.

Bring your team, your questions, and your curiosity. Tune in and listen in to  a conversation that could change how you lead—and how your people thrive. Miss it live? No worries: catch the replay and share it with your whole organization. LISTEN IN RIGHT HERE and let’s prove, together, that nobody is smarter than everybody.

Rod Collin's Book "Nobody Is Smarter Than Everybody: Why Self-Managed Teams Make Better Decisions and Deliver Extraordinary Results" is a mind bender of a book.  As open of a mindset that I believe I had, and as much of a growth mindset that I believe I operate in...Nobody is Smarter Than Everybody challenged me.

Honestly, I have lived in a hierarchical world.  Where I am used to someone being in charge and being the leader that makes the decisions.  In fact, I am that person.  The thought of peer-to-peer groups actually being faster and more efficient seemed so counterintuitive to me.  To embrace it was a mindset challenge I needed to change.

However, as I read the book and reading example after example of how peer-to-peer teams embraced this change of structure, I found myself realizing it is the correct model.

Can we be honest with each other?  Technology is moving faster than one human can adapt to.  In the technological and AI world we find ourselves, we cannot individually handle the amount of information and utilize it effectively.  Let's also state a fact that here we are in the 21st Century, operating business with early 20th Century Industrial Revolution model.  It simply cannot work. We need peer-to-peer solutions with all the combined brain power.

This is where Nobody is Smarter than Everybody comes in.  Rod Collins makes the strong case with examples of how if we are going to compete with networks we need to become a network utilizing all the brain power we have available to us in our companies by shedding the...