New bioteams audio-visual presentation released
Stumble It!"Fascinating lessons we can very readily learn from the most successful living systems on the key characteristics needed to operate a highly effective organisational team”. I am delighted to announce that, in collaboration with Robin Good, I have developed a new audio-visual presentation entitled "How to fix the three killer problems in your teams without any extra technology".
The presentation introduces some of the foundational principles of bioteaming and applies them immediately in real everyday organisational situtations.
To listen to the presentation and read the excellent accompanying article by Robin just click on this link:
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Organisations are complex living systems claims leading scientist
Fritjof Capra says organisations are not just like living systems - they are living systems! In his latest book, The Hidden Connections, Fritjof Capra, acclaimed physicist and author of the Web of Life and the Tao of Physics, challenges us to go beyond the metaphor and see to what extent human organisations can literally be understood as living systems.
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