What Your Boss Can Learn From Birds and Bees

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This post touches on three concepts from Ken Thompson's Bioteams: High Performance Teams Based on Nature's Most Successful Designs, which suggests that principles learned from social animals can help make human teams more effective:

• ants and bees: whole-team broadcasts
• geese: rotating leadership
• worms: highly connected, "hub" individuals

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[ken thompson]

Norbert

Thanks for posting this. Your readers might be interested in a slightly longer series of 3 articles posted under "How nature optimises its teams" - http://www.bioteams.com/2008/09/14/how_nature_optimises.html#more

Keep up the excellent work!

Best Regards

Ken Thompson
http://www.bioteams.com