Bioteams Part 1: The Team Leadership Zone
This article is the first in a four-part series which describes each of the 4 Bioteams Zones, starting with the Leadership Zone.
This article was originally published in 2005 by Ken Thompson and Robin Good.
Introduction
In The Bioteaming Manifesto we argued that traditional teams have key weaknesses and limitations and are now being replaced in organizations by Virtually Networked Teams.
We described the problems these teams face and pointed to critical issues that can make technology both part of the solution and part of the problem.
What emerged as being critical is the realization of Virtually Networked Team’s strong character and dynamic nature, almost as it would be a separate entity from the members making it up.
We also proposed that this new understanding could be further promoted and made useful to a greater number of people by working around the definition and establishment of a new discipline centred around the study of Bioteams.
Bioteaming is as such a new research area focused on the systematic study of natures’ historically most successful living teams while identifying best methods and approaches to transfer and integrate nature’s best solutions into the daily life of Virtually Networked Teams present handicaps and limitations.
