High Performing Teams and Improved Collaboration through Biomimicry
The Delphi Technique is a proven way to harness collective group intelligence (popularly known as the wisdom of crowds) in a wide range of applications.
Continue readingDelphi collective group intelligence tool: powerful and freeThe best team is Me. It might sound like heresy but sometimes the most effective way to produce something is not through collaboration but by just doing it yourself.
Continue readingCan a team have just one memberOne of the biggest problems in teams, communities and networks, whether co-located or virtual, is freeriding (aka freeloading or lurking or loafing) where certain team members do not pull their weight. Here are 5 things you can do about it.
Continue readingFreeriding in teams, communities and networks: 5 tips for fighting itMany people have been enchanted by the amazing video “The March of the Penguins” and most know that they have no leader. However few people go on to ask the obvious next question “If they have no leader then how do they know where to go?”….
Continue readingPenguins reveal the true essence of bioteamsDr R Meredith Belbin, regarded as the father of “team-role” theory and one of the worlds foremost experts on teams, predicts that our organizational teams will evolve into more biologically inspired forms.
Continue readingBelbin on bioteamsFritjof Capra says organisations are not just like living systems – they are living systems!
Continue readingOrganisations are living complex systems claims physicistWe can learn the secret of rapid evolution from the most evolved non-human species on the planet – but it is not who you think it is!
Continue readingThe secret of accelerated organisational learningBiological teams make extensive use of short messages as their main means of communication: Ants use chemical messages, Bees use visual messages conveyed through dance and Dolphins use sonar, however most human teams seem to have forgotten their Messaging Instincts.
Continue readingGroup Messaging Instincts: how to recover themIn How I put my husband through the hoops Amy Sutherland writing in G2 for the UK Guardian describes how she used tricks trainers use on wild animals such as dolphins, elephants and african crested cranes to modify her husbands behavior!
Continue readingChange Management: tips from wild animal trainersSunday 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”.
Continue readingDolphins know each others names