Political revolutions, economic meltdowns, mass ideological conversions and Collective innovation adoptions occur often; nevertheless, when they happen, they tend to be the least expected.
Taking as evidence two Middle Eastern uprisings, as well as behavioural experiments of Collective risk-taking, Hassanpour offers an explanation based on a novel paradigm of \'Leading from the periphery\'..
Political revolutions, economic meltdowns, mass ideological conversions and Collective innovation adoptions occur often; nevertheless, when they happen, they tend to be the least expected