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Bioteams

High Performing Teams and Improved Collaboration through Biomimicry

by Ken ThompsonApril 2021

Bioteams blog relaunches with free download of The Bioteaming Manifesto

This blog focusses on the bioteams concept – more effective teams based on nature’s proven models. If you would like a detailed overview of bioteams you can request a free copy of the 33-page Bioteaming Manifesto here.

The Bioteaming Manifesto has been downloaded 20,000 times over the last 15 years and is a very popular resource for anyone interested in the important discipline of developing and sustaining High Performing Teams.

Bioteams is structured around 4 levels of team maturity (“zones”) each of which operate around 3 guiding principles (“rules”) as shown in the diagram.

The Essential DNA of Bioteams: a DNA helix labelled with four zones — Lead, Connect, Execute and Organise — each listing three of the twelve bioteam rules, from ‘Information not Orders’ through to ‘Emerge’.

There is also a Tedx talk and a bioteams book, both by Ken Thompson.