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Bioteams

High Performing Teams and Improved Collaboration through Biomimicry

by Ken ThompsonNovember 2010

The 7 Secrets of High-Performing Teams: New Bioteams Video

In this new short audio/video I share 7 secrets on how teams can significantly improve performance by adopting simple techniques from Bioteams. These techniques are particularly relevant to large cross-functional teams and multi-enterprise teams whose members are not co-located and spend much of their working days on the road or on client site.

A slide headed “Secret 4. When One Knows All Know”, showing a group of meerkats standing upright, captioned “Meerkats on lookout duty”.
The 7 Secrets of High-Performing Teams:

TEAM ORGANISATION

  1. Clear rules of engagement
  2. Know what they can count on each other for
  3. Shared Values and Behaviours

TEAM OPERATION 4. When One Knows All Know 5. Ask The Network 6. Fast co-invention 7. Leveraged Engagement

Watch the audio/video: The 7 Secrets of High-Performing Teams