Ken Thompson's shared know-how on Team Dynamics, Virtual Collaboration and Bioteaming
Many thanks to Nancy White for her excellent and very comprehensive live blog on Bioteaming: Natural Models for Virtual Teams from the very recent Collaborative Tools Conference (CTC2006) in Boston.
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Ken is an expert practitioner, author and speaker on Collaboration, High Performing Teams and Leadership Development.
Sunday Times Online, May 07, 2006 reports in Dolphins ‘know each other’s names’ that DOLPHINS may be even closer to humans than previously realised, with new research showing they communicate by whistling out their own “names”.
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Ken is an expert practitioner, author and speaker on Collaboration, High Performing Teams and Leadership Development.
In Off-Sites that Work, July 2006, Harvard Business Review, the authors argue that the core problem with most strategy off-sites or team away-days is that they’re insufficiently structured and not enough thought given to how they are to be facilitated.
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Ken is an expert practitioner, author and speaker on Collaboration, High Performing Teams and Leadership Development.
In an article, “War, pestilence, natural disasters and telework”, Jack Nilles, co-founder and president of JALA , reports that virtual working has become a key tool for crisis management.
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Ken is an expert practitioner, author and speaker on Collaboration, High Performing Teams and Leadership Development.
In traditional organisational teams we have processes like selection, mobilisation, planning, operations and dissolution. Bioteams have a totally different set of natural processes: Foraging, Co-Evolution, Reproduction, Nurture, Maintenance and Metabolism.
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Ken is an expert practitioner, author and speaker on Collaboration, High Performing Teams and Leadership Development.