John Austin, writing in his excellent blog, Tag your Team, references research by Robert Kelley on ‘followership’ which examines two different traits of behaviour in team members: critical thinking and pro-activity.

By analysing these on two independent axes Kelley was able to identify 5 stereotype followers – sheep, alienated, survivors, effectives and yes-people.

The research showed that effective followers add value, focus on goals and take initiative: in other words the best followers are those people that could be leaders.

“Teams in which every team member has the skills to lead have great potential to excel”.

This resonates very well with the bioteam's cornerstone of distributed leadership and every member a leader (in different domains).

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When collaboration goes bad

April 10, 2007 | article by Ken Thompson in Book Reviews (37)

Poor organisational intelligence leads to 'coblaboration' instead of collaboration.Harvard Professor, David Perkins, in his latest book, "King Arthur's Round Table : How Collaborative Conversations Create Smart Organizations", discusses the importance of "organisational Intelligence" and "developmental leadership" and how the absence of these leads to coblaboration rather than collaboration in organisational teams.

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