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Bioteams

High Performing Teams and Improved Collaboration through Biomimicry

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High Performing Teams

A Design Framework for Bioteams

A diagram of a sphere with arrows circling it in two planes, above a downward arrow and a wavy line, representing a living system coupled to its environment.

The Trinity of all Living Systems – A Design Framework for Bioteams. Dr Humberto Maturana and Dr Franciso Varela, 2 Chilean biologist/neuroscientists, in their ground-breaking book “The Tree of Knowledge – The Biological Roots of Human Understanding” [1] suggest a simple but profound model, represented graphically below, which wonderfully captures the essence of living systems.

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