Friendship groups versus social networks
An essay by Stuart Jeffries in The Guardian shows why it is important to have good friendship rings as well as strong social/business networks and how to tell the difference.
Key Essays - view all
- Organizational teams: learning from nature
Ken Thompson, writing for Insider Knowledge Magazine, in Why Penguins... - Generation-C Teams make natural bioteams
In the ground-breaking book Communities Dominate Brands, Tomi Ahonen and... - Virtual team member autonomy: learn from software agents
Team leaders who want their team members to show more... - Black Sun teams use flocking and scale
During spring in Denmark, just before sunset, flocks of more... - The Bioteaming Manifesto
The Bioteaming Manifesto is the definitive summary of the key... - New Bioteams Video by Robert Scoble
Many Thanks to Robert Scoble of Scoble Show fame for...
Is defining collaboration useful
OK so you may be able to define collaboration, but will it help you achieve it?
When collaboration goes bad
Poor organisational intelligence leads to 'coblaboration' instead of collaboration.
Can software engineering teams adapt biological principles
Ken Thompson, facilitated an interactive session at the 2006 SPICE Conference in Luxembourg in June 2006 with the leading practitioners and researchers in Software Process Improvement (SPI) on the topic 'Can software engineering teams adapt biological principles?'
Mobile phone users: are we now cyborgs
The term cyborg is used to designate an organism which is a mixture of organic and synthetic parts so designed to enhance its abilities via technology. William Mitchell a professor at MIT Media Lab believes that through our mobile devices we are all becoming mobile cyborgs and its for the better.
Organizational teams: learning from nature
Ken Thompson, writing for Insider Knowledge Magazine, in Why Penguins have no commanding officer reveals the two fundamental differences between biological teams and organizational teams and what we can learn from nature about effective teamwork.
Effective team leading without authority
Roger Fisher, the world's leading expert on win-win negotiation, describes the power of having Lateral Leadership skills which let you get the job done when you are not the boss.
