Dr. Lior Zoref is a researcher, founder, keynote speaker, advisor and author of the bestselling book, Mindsharing – the art of crowdsourcing everything. Mindsharing has been translated to many languages and was listed by Inc. Magazine as one of the best books for entrepreneur leaders, along with books by Richard Branson, Elon Musk and Tony Hsieh. Founder of "Yesh Matsav" , a nonprofit venture helping youth at risk.
Dr. Zoref gave a talk at TED in Long Beach California and has been invited to speak at some of the world’s most innovative organizations, including The White House, Nike, Google, MIT Media Lab, Microsoft and LinkedIn where he shared the stage with figures like Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jeff Bezos and more.
Dr. Zoref worked for fourteen years at Microsoft. His last role was vice president of marketing for consumer and online services. He earned his PhD in crowdsourcing from Bar-Ilan University.
contact followWE are smarter than ME From the perspective of a leading intelligence researcher and former vice president of marketing at Microsoft, this talk inspires a new look at the future of intelligence, the ways we make difficult decisions in the era of collective and artificial intelligence. Motivating organizations to set big goals, think even bigger, and make their wildest dreams and most ambitious goals come true, Zoref’s inspirational talk outlines the ways individuals and global corporations can use new forms of intelligence to get ahead. If the old saying is true that two brains are better than one, mindsharing—and this talk from Dr. Zoref—show how to benefit from the power of fifty, five hundred, or even five thousand human and artificial brains.
Whether we need to make better financial choices, find the love of our life, or transform our career, crowdsourcing is the key to making quicker, wiser, more objective decisions.
But few of us even come close to tapping the full potential of our online personal networks. This book offers proven guidelines for applying "mind sharing" in new ways. For instance, how a mother's Facebook update saved the life of a four-year-old boy, and how a manager used LinkedIn to create a year's worth of market research in less than a day.
Organization are using these techniques to innovate and problem-solve in record time. Mindsharing reveals how crowdsourcing has the ability to supercharge our thinking and upgrade every aspect of our lives.